(JollofNews) – Critics of Gambia’s government are increasingly fearful of arrest, torture and imprisonment as the west African nation clamps down on free speech ahead of polls expected to land President Yahya Jammeh a fifth term, Amnesty International said Thursday. Opposition politicians, journalists, human rights defenders and religious figures have[Read More…]
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Gambia’s Opposition Leader Warns President Jammeh
(JollofNews) –An opposition leader in the Gambia has warned President Yahya Jammeh against using force to sustain his grip on power. Halifa Sallah of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), said using truncheons, cudgels, tear gas canisters, hose pipes, rubber bullets, live bullets and mass graves to[Read More…]
Gambia: The UDP Fiasco, An Avoidable Blunder
(JollofNews) – More than ever before the political scene in the Gambia has been charged, anger visibly demonstrated and fear gradually eroded. The country’s already bad image got further soiled in the eyes of the right thinking people of the world. The general analyses are that this could be the[Read More…]
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