Today, 16 Dec 2015, US VP Joe Bidden released a statement asking Turkey to pull troops out of Iraq. Those Turkish troops in Iraq have just been bombed, today, by ISIS – with Turkish supplied weapons! Or was it Turkey requesting ISIS to bomb Turkish troops in Iraq? That would […]
Press Freedom
Gambia Press Union Cries Foul
By Abdoulie John The Gambia Press Union has used the 57th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) as a platform to draw the attention of country representatives and activists to the ongoing attacks on journalists. “The Gambia Press Union (GPU) is deeply concerned by […]
Sniper Angle: More Charges Against Teranga MD
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), S.H. Barkun, has filed fresh charges against Teranga FM radio station Managing Director, Abdoulie Ceesay, at the Banjul High Court. Ceesay was earlier arraigned on a single-count charge of seditious intention before Magistrate M.S. Jallow of the Banjul Magistrates’ Court. The new seven-count charge […]
The Day Gambia’s Press Freedom Died
ON THE 22ND JULY 1994 WAS THE DAY THAT THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN THE GAMBIA DIED!!! By Lamin Saddam Sanyang, The Netherlands Today is the world press freedom day. This is supposed to be a day of joy, and a day of celebration for the press all over the world, but […]
Freedom Of Expression Is Forbidden Here
By Foday Samateh “Six armed men wearing masks came to the printing works at 2:00 a.m., fired shots into the air, and ordered the employees to lie on the ground. One of them then set fire to the new press…completely destroying it.” The police didn’t investigate the crime much less […]
Taranga Radio Censored, Director Harassed After Foiled Coup
An independent radio station that Gambian authorities ordered to stop broadcasting from January 1 to 4 after a failed coup attempt in the country has been allowed back on air, but ordered to play only music, according to news reports and local journalists. The crackdown on community station Taranga FM […]
'Deyda Is A Sacrificial Lamb'
By Basirou Conateh The Secretary General of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism has described the Gambia’s assassinated senior editor as a “Sacrificial Lamb of the Gambia.” Halifa Sallah told a symposium organised by the Gambia Press Union last week that “culture of impunity leads to culture of […]
Past 3 Years Deadliest For Journalists
International journalists account for nearly a quarter of journalists killed in 2014 The past three years are the most deadly for journalists on record, CPJ finds New York, December 23, 2014-Twenty-three percent of journalists killed on the job this year were members of the international press, about double the proportion […]
Gambia's 10 Years Of Impunity
GAMBIA: 10 Years Of Impunity, 10 Years Of Injustice For The Murder Of Deyda Hydara Amnesty International 16th December 2004 – 16th December 2014 Gambia: 10 Years of Impunity, 10 years of injustice for the murder of Deyda HYDARA Dakar, 16th December 2014 Joint Statement The government of Yahya Jammeh […]
A Requiem For Deyda Hydara
By Foday Samateh Even as I write these words, a part of me is still in denial. Ten years on, the wishful in me still clings to a chimera. I do so because the ghoulish reality of December 16, 2004, sends me in bouts of disillusionment to the borders of derangement. […]
Defence Counsel Slams Prosecution
The defense attorney representing the Voice Newspaper journalists on Thursday urges the Banjul Magistrate’s Court” to acquit and discharge” his clients. Lawyer Lamin Camara slams the prosecution for “woefully failing to establish a prima facie against Sainey MK Marenah and Musa Sheriff.” Marenah and Sheriff are standing trial on conspiracy […]
Gambia Press Union Is Sinking
By Journalist Bakary Ceesay Gambia Press Union (GPU) is sinking and needs urgent attention to remedy the mess to avoid such recurrence in the coming executive. The current executive came to office in June 2011 and their term of office expired in June 2014 but still they did not call for […]