(JollofNews) – It’s very obvious that there is an urgent and desired need for change in The Gambia. In fact, the need for change is so dire that one could describe it as, “The Fierce Urgency of Now”; the title of the book authored by Julian Zelizer, a Historian and[Read More…]
Tag: Opposition Protest
UN Envoy Urges Gambia To Free Jailed Opposition Figures
(JollofNews) – The special representative of the UN secretary general for West Africa and Sahel urged Gambia’s government Thursday to release an opposition leader and dozens of his supporters from prison. In April this year, Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party and a host of his colleagues were sentenced[Read More…]
Prominent Gambian Activist Facing Removal From Britain
(JollofNews) – Salif Joof looked nervously at his door as he welcomed me into the three bedroom house he shares with his partner. “I am a dead man walking,” he said. The 38-year-old renown Gambian activist is facing deportation to his native country after his asylum application was refused by[Read More…]
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