Gambian national Joachim Cardos, 43, was jailed for eight years for rape and sentenced to a further three years for dealing the Class B drug cannabis. Despite a law that foreign nationals guilty of serious crimes should automatically be deported, the sex offender launched a human rights challenge, arguing that[Read More…]
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Ibrahima Bah In UK Court For ‘Attempting’ To Illegally Pilot Asylum Seekers To UK
A 19-year-old man appeared at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on Monday for allegedly facilitating attempted illegal entry to UK. Ibrahima Bah was arraigned before Deputy District Judge Nicola Fleck following the capsizing of a migrant boat in the English Channel, resulting to the death of four people. He denied the charge[Read More…]
Gambian Jailed In UK For Cocaine Smuggling
A Gambian man was among three men jailed in the UK for their roles in a transnational organized crime group, JollofNews has gathered. Baboucarr Nyang, 49, was found guilty of conspiring with a Jamaican Rowe and a British citizen Winston Andrew to smuggle suitcases of cocaine from St Lucia in[Read More…]
‘Gambian Community In UK In Shock Over Compatriots’ Suspected Murder’
The Gambian community in the UK has been devastated by news that three of their compatriots have tragically died following a fire at their flat in Fairisle Close, Clifton. The suspected arson occured on Sunday at 3:17am. The two children were pronounced dead on Sunday whilst their mother, who was[Read More…]
Has UK Gov’t Failed Transport Minister Ebrima Sillah?
Aside slavery and colonization, the UK can also be brutally remembered for callously ejecting Gambians from its territory as they desperately searched for sanctuary from dictatorship. Never in the history of the impoverished West African nation had citizens been uprooted from their homes in such magnitude as during the Jammeh[Read More…]
Gambian Striker Alassana Jatta Not Permitted To Enter UK For Europa Conference League Playoff
A Gambian footballer with the Danish club Viborg has not been able to travel to the UK for his club’s Europa Conference League playoff game against West Ham United. Alassana Jatta will not be able to play in the first leg of match at the London Stadium on Thursday due[Read More…]
UK To Slow Down Visa Applications For Gambia, Others
The British government has decided to introduced visa sanctions against nationals of the Gambia and other countries for refusing to cooperate in taking back rejected asylum seekers and offenders from the Unite Kingdom. UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has applied slow-down measures to paperwork for Gambian applicants. According to Ms[Read More…]
UK, US, UN, EU, Canada Congratulate Gambians For Peaceful Polls
(JollofNews) – The United States and the United Kingdom have congratulated the people of Gambia on the peaceful conduct of presidential polls in the country. The United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) have also sent congratulations to Gambians and the president-elect Adama Barrow. The December 1 polls was won[Read More…]
Gambia: British Envoy Condemns Opposition Members’ Imprisonment
(JollofNews) – The British envoy to the Gambia Tuesday condemned the “severe sentences” given to members of main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP). Opposition Leader Ousainou Darboe and 18 of his supporters were last Wednesday sentenced to 3 years in prison by a high court judge in Banjul for taking[Read More…]
Four Gambians, 1 Senegalese Killed In Birmingham’s Recycling Plant Accident
(JollofNews) – At least four Gambian men and a Senegalese national who were working at a recycling site in Birmingham,UK, have been killed when a retaining wall holding scrap metal collapsed. Although police are yet to reveal the names of the men, local residents told JollofNews that they are Muhammad[Read More…]
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