The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) has expressed dismay at a recent media report about the sale of African migrants as slaves in the North African nation of Libya. West African migrants were being sold in modern-day slave markets in Libya, based on information from the[Read More…]
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Gambia: Child Right Advocates Outraged by Child Video Insulting Former President
(JollofNews) – Child right advocates in The Gambia has condemned a video purportedly filmed by an adult showing a minor insulting the country’s former president Yahya Jammeh. In the video circulated on the whatsapp social app, showed the minor girl, apparently in her less than ten years insulting Mr. Jammeh,[Read More…]
Gambia: Detained ‘Mutinous’ Soldiers Charged With Treason
(JollofNews) – State prosecutors in the Gambia Friday filed treason charges against a group of ‘mutinous’ soldiers accused of engaging in mutinous, defamatory, scandalous and unethical acts against the government of President Adama Barrow. Captain Yaya Biray Jammeh; Lieutenant Abdoulie Jarju; Lieutenant Yaya Jammeh; Sergeant Babucarr Sanneh; Sergeant Malick Bojang;[Read More…]

