Between 2001 to 2003 records from the Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) say 22 vessels carrying rice, oil, potatoes, and onions docked at the Banjul port in the name of the Youth Development Enterprise (YDE). YDE had a credit account with GPA and records show that not a single butut was[Read More…]
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Gambian Football Bakery Jatta Faces German Investigation Over False Identity Report
Berlin (AFP) – Germany’s football federation the DFB on Wednesday launched an inquiry after doubts were raised over the identity of a Gambian footballer playing for Hamburg. The German second division side’s records indicate that Bakery Jatta is 21 years old and arrived from Gambia as a 16-year-old in 2015.[Read More…]
Conjoined Twins Journey From Senegal To Wales
Two girls, one body Conjoined twins – you’re unlikely to see them. Only a tiny number are born each year, the vast majority of which are stillborn or die soon after birth. Marieme and Ndeye are the exceptions. At two years and eight months, they live in Cardiff, having moved[Read More…]
Former Gambian Ruler Denied Over D2 Million Inheritance
Authorities in the Gambia have blocked the country’s former ruler from accessing millions of Dalasis left in a local bank by his late mother. A local Islamic Cadi Court had awarded former President Yahya Jammeh the D2, 284,311, 50 inheritance left in an Arab Gambia Islamic Bank account belonging to his[Read More…]
Newspaper Editor Recounts His Experiences In Gambia’s ‘Guantanamo Bay’
One of Gambia’s most persecuted journalists during the previous APRC regime of President Yahya Jammeh has opened up about his experiences in the hands of the country’s feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Alagi Yorro Jallow, former managing editor and founder of the private newspaper, The Independent, before it was banned[Read More…]
Man Loses Fight Against Death Sentence For Killing Brother Over Dinner
A Gambian brother who killed his brother following an argument over food has lost his fight against death sentence. Bakary Kanyi of Farafenni stabbed Lamin Camara with a broken bottle in December 2009 after a squabble about him eating food his bare hand. According court documents, the Camara Kunda family[Read More…]
Gambia: How Baba Jobe Was Used And Dumped By Yahya Jammeh (Part one)
In the wake of the 22nd July military coup that brought Yahya Jammeh and his AFPRC/APRC government to power in 1994, the economic life of the once prosperous West African country began to sink deep and deeper into the wide blue sea prompting fears that the junta would not be[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: To Free Or Not To Free, That’s The Burning Question Of The Day
It puts the searchlight on the term “justice”. What is this elephant in the room called justice: might is right? Punishment for the unjust and reward for the just? Equality Or equal treatment? Rule of law? Rights and liberty? Utilitarianism or ” the greatest happiness of the greatest number? Contractualism[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: With Pain, I Agree with Minister Tambadou To Release Junglers
Let me go straight to the point: TRRC was set up simply because we endured an autocratic rule which was notorious for massive violations of human rights. The foremost instrument of violations was the Junglers. The Junglers were terrorists of the most notorious degree. Until now each and every Gambian[Read More…]
Tanzania switches track, charges Kabendera with economic crimes
Journalist Erick Kabendera, who is detained in Tanzania. (Jamii Forums) Nairobi, August 05, 2019—Prosecutors in Tanzania today charged freelance journalist Erick Kabendera with money laundering, tax evasion, and assisting an organized crime racket, according to a copy of the charge sheet. When he was detained on July 29, the Dar[Read More…]
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