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| Omar Bah was declared wanted by the Jammeh-Government in 2006 |
An exiled Gambian journalist living in
Providence, Rhode Island, USA has launched a news website called American
Street News (ASN) - www.americanstreetnews.com.
The ASN, according to Omar Bah, a former editor at the Daily Observer in Banjul, is aimed at reporting news and current affairs in Rhode Island communities and beyond.
“ASN reports on pressing issues affecting the common
person in communities in which we live. Through this, we encourage what is
known as ‘Citizen Reporting’ whereas readers can provide information and news
items which would be published,” said Bah, who was declared wanted by the
Jammeh-Government in 2006.
“In so doing, people can mail us pictures with short
emails on issues they see in the streets that they think should be in the
public domain,” he added. “We also welcome opinions and analysis on various
topics that could promote a healthy debate environment.”
In the wake of the famous
hacking-scandal of a Gambian US-based online newspaper, Freedom, in 2006, for which
many people said to be “subscribers” were arrested and detained, Omar Bah was
declared wanted.
Bah, who fled the country
immediately, was an editor at the pro-government newspaper, the Daily Observer
at the time.
Written Modou S. Joof
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