Press Release

                    GPU EU   

     Elects Interim   

        Committee  

Members of the Gambia Press Union/UK now renamed; The Gambia Press Union/ EU, on Thursday July 22 2010, held an emergency meeting at Amnesty International offices in London to elect a new committee...  

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Commentary

Economic gains benefit insignificant percentage of people

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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor

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To understand how Gambia’s economic engine functions, and the forces that are driving it, one only has to examine how stated economic policy objectives are operationalized by the state. First, the point of departure has to be Yahya Jammeh’s perspective on how the state ought to operate in the process of....

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The Gambia on the road to political limbo
                           

By D. A. Jawo, Banjul, The Gambia

It is barely six months to the next presidential elections, and yet, it is only Yahya Jammeh who is out campaigning, of course in the guise of ‘Dialogue with the People’ tour. The opposition parties are keeping so quiet as if nothing is about to happen for the next decade. Indeed, the complete quietness in the opposition camp is no doubt why President Jammeh said on the first day of his country-wide tour that he was not going to campaign, even though his every action and utterance, including holding rallies to welcome so-called carpet crossers from the UDP, during the tour, tantamount to campaigning.

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As Jammeh and thugs celebrate, we remember the executed, murdered, disappeared

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By Mathew K Jallow

As Yahya Jammeh and his thugs celebrate a political catastrophy that is July 22, we remember  our fellow citizens who have been executed, murdered, tortured and disappreared at the hands of Yahya Jammeh and his criminal  gang. This is an incomplete list, and we are urging our readers to help the media and human rights organizations compile complete and up-to-date list. If you know of someone who has been murdered, executed, disappeared, tortures...

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                       Amnesty International

        Who assasinated journalist Deida Hydara?

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Introduction

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The Day of Action (DOA) is an annual campaign held on 22 July to raise human rights concerns in Gambia.

July 22 is referred to as ‘Freedom Day’ by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to celebrate the day he took power in a military coup in 1994, and ‘liberated’ the Gambian people...

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       Commentary

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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate editor

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The long drawn out courtroom arguments are over. The fiery exchanges have ended. The acrimonious proceedings have been reduced to one solitary word; guilty. Even by our standards, the verdict was unexpected. It was unbelievable......

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                   Public Announcement

                                     Nana Grey-Johnson

Dear all, kindly find below a message from Mr Nana Grey-Johnson, the Interim Vice President of the Writers Association of The Gambia. For the Press, kindly support us by publishing its contents on any available space on your papers. To all our partners....

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                       Petition Letter

Pa Modou Bojang, a Gambian journalist, is in jail in the United Kingdom, awaiting order for his deportation to his native Gambia. This follows the denial of his application for an asylum, presumably...

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Editorial

The political apathy, is a rejection of  Jammeh's one-man government..

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By Mathew K Jallow

It was not quite the re-play of the tragic PPP Mansa Konko Congress, of many years ago, yet the reelection of Ousainou Darboe as head of UDP is bound to have consequences for his party and The Gambia for years to come. For one thing....

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