(JollofNews) – In 1909, an American journalist called Joseph Pulitzer exposed a fraudulent payment of $40 million by the United States to the French Panama Canal Company. Immediately the US Government took him to court charging him for criminal libel against Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and the banker J.P. Morgan, among[Read More…]
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Gambia: A Memo To Baa Tambedo And Demba Ali Jawo On Press Freedom And Freedom of Expression Part 1.
Congress shall make no law…. abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…. This is the part of the First Amendment and the words are very plain, and would seem to be beyond the power of even lawyers and politicians to twist or distort. The Constitution’s framers provided the[Read More…]
Gambia: Please Don’t Trigger President Barrow’s Soothsayer
And Don’t Make Yahya Jammeh Smile from Guinea (JollofNews) – In May 2016, a Jammeh’s soothsayer edition sub-capped, “Is the End Near?” stated, Yahya shall fall from directions he least espies…” And what was the direction Jammeh least espied? ELECTIONS! Not just Jammeh, but almost the whole world never thought[Read More…]