(JollofNews) – Gambian businessman, Basiru Jawara is alive and kicking, JollofNews can confirmed. Earlier this afternoon, the online Telegraph Newspaper reported that the businessman died in South Africa, citing an unnamed local radio source. The paper also reported that the local businessman’s cause of death is not known but that[Read More…]
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Gambia: Opposition UDP Urges Sweden To Refuse Ousman Sonko’s Asylum Bid
(JollofNews) – The United Democratic Party (UDP) is following with keen interest, reports that former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko has fled the country and reportedly seeking asylum in Sweden. The Diaspora wing of the UDP is working with partners and other Gambian activist groups to authenticate the veracity of[Read More…]
Prominent Gambian Activist Facing Removal From Britain
(JollofNews) – Salif Joof looked nervously at his door as he welcomed me into the three bedroom house he shares with his partner. “I am a dead man walking,” he said. The 38-year-old renown Gambian activist is facing deportation to his native country after his asylum application was refused by[Read More…]

