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Gambia News : Gambians head to the polls
December 1, 2011
On November 24 the people of The Gambia will decide who rules their country for the next five years.
Yahya AJJ Jammeh, the incumbent and leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) party, is being challenged by two opposition candidates: United Democratic Party (UDP) leader Ousainou Darboe, and an independent …
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Tags: Gambia News : Neither election, nor coup can end my gov’t – Jammeh
July 20, 2011
President Yahya Jammeh has said that neither elections nor a military coup will end his grip on power, stressing that it is only God, who made it possible for him to be President in 1994, who can do so. President Jammeh, who was addressing a meeting in Brikamaba, Upper …
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Gambia News : AUC grad student Mouctar Diallo arrested in The Gambia
July 9, 2011
A Guinean graduate student at The American University in Cairo (AUC) was arrested 30 April in the Gambian capital of Banjul on charges of threatening national security by spreading ideas inspired by Egypt’s 25 January revolution, friends in Cairo say.
Mouctar Diallo was called for questioning by Gambian authorities on suspicions …
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Gambia News : Gambian ex-minister accused of plot against govt
June 16, 2011
Gambian prosecutors on Wednesday charged a former communications minister, who is also a US national, and three others of a plot to overthrow the government of President Yahya Jammeh. Amadou Scatred Janneh and the others will stand trial for “conspiring among themselves to carry out an enterprise with force …
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Gambia News : Gambia rejects Alassane Ouattara as president of Ivory Coast
April 18, 2011
The Gambia said on Saturday that it does not recognize Alassane Ouattara as president of Cote d’Ivoire after the arrest of his predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo, with the help of the UN and French forces. “The Gambian government will not recognize any president, President Ouattara included, nor African government that …
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Gambia News : Gambia’s Trade minister resigns
April 18, 2011
The recently appointed Gambian Minister of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment Abdou Salam Secka on Thursday resigned from the cabinet According to a press release from the office of the president issued here Thursday, Mr. Secka, who was appointed about three weeks ago; on 18th March, gave ‘personal and …
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Gambia News : Gambia cuts relations with Iran
April 4, 2011
The Gambia has said it is cutting all ties with Iran and ordered all Iranian government representatives to leave within 48 hours.
Officials from the small West African nation gave no reason for the move.
But last month Nigeria said it had intercepted an illegal arms …
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Gambia News : Gambian lawyers boycott court sessions in protest
April 4, 2011
Gambian lawyers are currently boycotting all the courts in the tiny West African nation following a decision by prosecutors at the state law office to charge one of their colleagues, Moses Richards with sedition and giving false information to a public officer, APA learns here on Wednesday.
The President of the …
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Gambia News : Gambian justice minister issues threats against journalists, rights defenders
April 4, 2011
Gambia’s Justice Minister, Edward Gomez has been quoted issuing threats to exiled journalists and rights defenders, saying that they would be prosecuted if they returned for “painting a grim picture ” of the country.
According to a press release issued Monday by the Media Foundation for West …
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Gambia News : Gambian authorities ban independent radio station
April 4, 2011
The Gambian authorities on Thursday shut the only independent radio station in the nation that has continued to broadcast news, according to local journalists. According to a press release issued by the New York-based media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday, quoting local journalists, said officials of …
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