Police in the Gambia have arrested a woman who was filmed whacking her 8-year-old niece with a wooden pestle. Adama Jarju, 30, of Lamin Kerewan, Kombos North, was arrested Monday after a video of her hitting her niece with a pestle was posted on social media. It is not clear[Read More…]
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A Celebrated Virtuoso On An Instrument She Wasn’t Meant To Play
Manchester, England — When Sona Jobarteh, one of The Gambian’s most famous musicians, plucks the strings with his index finger and thumb, the airy sound of the centuries-old West African instrument Kora echoes. rice field. Under the purple stage lights of the Manchester International Festival in July — her first[Read More…]
Barrow Defends Alliance With APRC
President Adama Barrow has defended the controversial alliance between his National People’s Party and the former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction of former president Yahya Jammeh. The alliance generated condemnation from politicians, victims and human rights activists who described it as a total betrayal to the change that[Read More…]
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