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Gambia Tightens Noose On Dissenters – Amnesty

(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…]

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