Gambia slams west for ‘concocting lies’ about its human rights abuses
The government said on Saturday that the US and Britain were behind a ‘shameless’ smear campaign after Gambia left the Commonwealth.
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Gambia: Paradise grins its atrocities away
Behind a row of luxurious resorts overlooking sparkling blue seas in the Gambia’s capital, Banjul, lie more meagre lodgings, nicknamed Mile 2 hotel.
Gambia unfreezes Libyan assets
The Gambian Supreme Court has ruled it should lift sanctions on Libya and return the country’s assets to the ruling National Transitional Council.
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Gambia’s Jammeh sweeps polls to secure fourth term
Yahya Jammeh scored a landslide win in presidential polls on Friday, securing a fourth term at the helm of the tiny state.
Gambians go marbles for Jammeh as president
Friend of Jermaine Jackson, mystic who ‘cures’ Aids and autocratic leader of winter sun destination, Yahya Jammeh expected to win again.
Gambia wraps up poll campaign with opposition rallies
Gambia’s election campaign has wrapped up with rival presidential candidates staging rallies in the tiny capital Banjul ahead of polls.
‘Crown me king’
Not content with his current titles — His Excellency, the President, Sheik, professor, Alhaji, Doctor — Yahya Jammeh wants to be crowned King.
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Six journalists jailed in Gambia
Six Gambian journalists, including one who contributed to Reuters, have been jailed for two years for sedition and defamation.
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Tourism in tiny Gambia takes a hit from financial crisis
The young waitress waved at the empty tables as a clutch of idle cooks bided time in a corner of one of the Gambian capital’s trendy restaurants.
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Cash-strapped AU peacekeepers to quit Darfur
The poorly equipped African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur is set to quit the troubled western Sudanese region by end of September due to a lack of funds, the AU’s security organ said on Tuesday. ”Whatever happens, our mandate ends on September 31 unless there are new developments,” South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said.
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Gambian police chief arrested
The inspector general of Gambia’s police force was on Sunday in jail along with the West African state’s former top immigration official, police sources said. Police chief Landing Badjie and Tamsir Jasseh were arrested on Saturday by National Intelligence Agency officers and taken to the capital’s central prison.
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News blackout in Gambia after murder of journalist
Gambia’s lively independent media fell silent on Monday to open a weeklong news blackout to honour Deida Hydara, the dean of the press corps who was slain last week in what his colleagues believe was a politically motivated act. Hydara (58) was felled by three bullets in what colleagues said appeared to be a drive-by shooting.
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Gambia to revoke controversial media law
Gambia has decided to revoke a controversial 2002 media law requiring journalists and the privately owned press to register with a state-run commission, a local radio station reported on Wednesday. Local media and international organisations from the start condemned the media commission.
