(JollofNews)– President Adama Barrow of the Gambia Thursday met with members of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. The Group operates as part of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Chairperson and Rapporteur Houria Es-Slami said that the Group’s primary task was[Read More…]

(JollofNews) – A former Gambian newspaper editor has strongly criticised Wednesday’s arbitrary closure of the country’s first daily newspaper, the Daily Observer. Alagi Yorro Jallow, former managing editor of The Independent, which was banned by the previous regime of President Yahya Jammeh in 2005, said the closure of the newspaper[Read More…]

(JollofNews) – Authorities in the Gambia Wednesday ordered the closure of the country’s first newspaper, the Daily Observer. The newspaper which supports former President Yahya Jammeh and his APRC party, is accused of failing to pay millions of Dalasis in tax to the country’s revenue authority (GRA). According to sources, [Read More…]