(JollofNews) Two journalists working for the Arabic-language service of international news organisation Al-Jazeera were held by security forces in The Gambia and deported, Gambian and Mauritanian sources told AFP on Monday. The channel’s Mauritania bureau chief Zeinebou Mint Erebih and cameraman Mohamed Ould Beidar were taken away from their upmarket[Read More…]
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Gambia: Jammeh Asks Supreme Court To Void Election Results
(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh’s Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) has filed a petition with the ‘vacant’ Supreme Court of the Gambia asking it to void the recent presidential election result. The December 1st presidential election results were called in favour of Adama Barrow of the opposition coalition[Read More…]
Gambia Has Ridden Itself Of Jammeh – The World Must Not Forget It When The News Cycle Moves On
(JollofNews) – Aisha was just two weeks old when her father Momodou was arrested. A long time supporter of Gambia’s largest opposition party, the United Democratic Party (UDP), he was arrested with several other UDP members on 16 April 2016 as they walked down the road with their arms linked[Read More…]
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