Monday, December 31, 2012
National Assembly leader claims bloggers ‘insulted’ Gambia’s leadership
A majority leader of Gambia’s National Assembly has
accused bloggers of putting stories online that “insulted” the country’s
leadership.
“Some people are blogging and putting stories on
the internet and other websites insulting the leadership of this country,” Hon.
Fabakary Tombong Jatta claims while speaking during an adjournment debate of
the Assembly on Dec. 19, 2012.
This angle of the news is given little prominence
by local media and can only be found embedded in stories on the papers it
appeared. Instead the local media focused on the issues of mainstream media
that we’ve heard over and over, a local journalist and blogger told The North Bank Evening Standard.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
The Gambia: Forward With Taiwan Aid And Advocacy
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| Button-like image of country described in file name (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Indications are that The Gambia is far from letting her bilateral relations with Taiwan strained. Looking forward to ties regarded as "cordial and beneficial" the tiny West African country of less than 2 million people on Tuesday gave assurances of "continued bilateral cooperation and partnership."
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
CBG must play role on exchange rate policy
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| In October 2012, President Yahya Jammeh forced exchange rate down in a directive against "hoarding" but the IMF did not recognise such mandate as the Central Bank of The Gambia is responsible of regulating the financial market (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
An
International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to the country led by Mr. David Dunn
revealed that the recent directive by the Office of President Yahya Jammeh on
the exchange rate and shipments of U.S. dollars led to some “disruptions” in
the foreign exchange market and created “uncertainty” about The Gambia’s
exchange rate policy.
Gambia: Economic activity improving
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| Gambian Women at Serrekunda Market (Photo Credit: Access Gambia) |
After a year enmesh in drought, very poor harvest, and hunger, think-tanks have
announced economic activity is improving in the West African nation of The
Gambia.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Finance minister warn fellow ministers to ‘stick to budget’
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| Finance Minister Abdou Kolley observed that Gambian ministries are fond of initiating programmes that are not budgeted for |
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
EUROPEAN UNION STATEMENT REGARDING AMIE BENSOUDA AND IMAM BABA LEIGH
PRESS RELEASE
11 December
2012
The British High Commission who represent The
European Union (EU) in The Gambia have released a statement regarding the
recent detention of Mrs Amie Bensouda and Imam Baba Leigh. A copy of the statement is below -
Monday, December 10, 2012
Gambia ‘drowning’ in global corruption poll
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| Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh is presiding over an increasingly corrupt country/here he speaks to journalists in Nov 2011/PHOTO/AFP |
MIGRANT REMITTANCES!
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| Central Bank Governor, Mr. Amadou Colley |
The increase in remittances is basically a
continuation of the recent trends with significant improvements in 2011 as it forms up to 10 percent (%) of The
Gambia’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP (the total value of goods and services that
the country produces in a year).
Gambia: Energy Consumption ‘Increases Dramatically’
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| Njogu Bah |
His
claim came amid increased electricity tariff and a power-supply social service
experts said is unreliable, inefficient and unaffordable.
He said the country’s energy use has increased
dramatically, but was quick to admit that the country has also suffers from
significant energy deficits, while speaking during a December 6, 2012
stakeholder’s validation forum on the “Development of Electricity Action Plan
and Renewable Energy Law in The Gambia”, held at the Kairaba Beach hotel.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
CPJ's new digital campaign demands justice in journalist killings
CPJ - New York, December 6, 2012--An average of 30 journalists are murdered each year in direct reprisal for their work, and the perpetrators are almost never brought to justice. To fight impunity in press killings, the Committee to Protect Journalists has launched Speak Justice: Voices Against Impunity, a new digital platform to help break the cycle of fear and censorship.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
ICC Chief Prosecutor Bensouda pledges to fight gender and sexual-based violence
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| Fatou Bensouda, current ICC Chief Prosecutor |
Friday, November 30, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
MENACE OF RAPE: Can’t be buried under carpet
Rape is s very sensitive issue, but a global
phenomenon. In some countries they are more open about this act considered a menace
to society but in other countries they are not that much open about it.
However, rape is a social vice that cannot be buried under the carpet, as Prince Bubacarr
Aminata Sankanu, a Gambian-German filmmaker told Modou S. Joof of
The
North Bank Evening Standard in an interview.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
For our children: Let’s start with prayers
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| GAMBIAN KIDS/PHOTO/STEVE WHEELER |
Poor Kuntaur and Janjanbureh highlight Gambia’s MDGs off target
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| L-R: Info minister Bala Garba Jahumpa, Finance minister Abdou Kolley, IFAD WCA Director Ides de Willebois, and Agriculture minister Solomon Owens/PHOTO/m.e.NJIE |
Poverty is highest in rural-Gambia where 73.9 percent (%) people live in poverty compared to 32.7% in urban-Gambia. In 2011, Kuntaur and Janjanbureh local government areas in the central river regions (CRR north and south), like the 2003 Integrated Household Survey (IHS) have the highest poverty rates with 79 and 73.2 percent respectively.
GYIN Gambia Chapter in session for journalists and bloggers
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| Participants and Facilitators |
As
part of the "I am a GYINer national campaign" set in motion since
July this year, Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter) hosted a
training session for Gambian journalists, bloggers and online reporters.
Even when Jammeh’s era is not ending yet, Halifa Sallah envisages a third republic in 2016
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| PDOIS Secretary-General, Halifa Sallah |
The
Secretary General of opposition, the Peoples Democratic Organisation for
Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) foresees the end of Gambia’s second republic
and president Yahya Jammeh’s era in 2016.
A
third republic will be born in 2016, Mr. Halifa Sallah said. However, for this
to be, it means the opposition must win the next presidential election
scheduled for that year, even though international observers have said the
president is sure to win every election in the country whatever the case.
“Gambia
is in a state of flux,” Halifa said in a November 9 PDOIS statement he issued
“On the political situation of the Gambia and the threat of an impending armed
insurrection.”
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| President Yahya Jammeh/AFP |
“PDIOS is willing to give guidance at each turn
of the country so that our ship of state will anchor on safe shores. Those who
want human rights protection today and change by 2016 should mobilize the
people to give the opposition the power of numbers over the incumbent. No
leader on earth has ever been able to defy the power of numbers,” he stated.
As
combatants sit down to negotiate a peaceful settlement of disputes, Mr. Sallah
said PDOIS supports the meeting of opposition parties to select a liaison to
prepare the ground to draw Jesse Jackson to promote negotiation for electoral
reform.
Monday, November 19, 2012
GAMBIA: Young talents to star in €51K movie - ‘The Woman In A Black Jacket’
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| Prince Sankanu speaks to Modou S. Joof, publisher of The North Bank Evening Standard, on his film project |
“The Woman In
A Black Jacket” is one of two movies to be shot in The Gambia in a film
project initiated and set in motion by Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, a
Germany-based Gambian filmmaker, author and strategy consultant.
The movie is about the menace of rape, a sensitive
and major topic around the world, and Sankanu said talking about it (rape) is
about placing the mirror before society to look at this issue which cannot be
buried under the carpet.
CPJ: Gambian journalist threatened after writing on executions
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Reporters Without Borders Update
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GAMBIA
Thugs threaten to kill journalist, what are authorities doing?
RSF - Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by an increase in threats and intimidation attempts against freelance journalist Abubacarr Saidykhan, who – along with Daily News reporter Baboucarr Ceesay, the Gambian Press Union’s vice-president – already received death threats by email in October.
After talking to Saidykhan, Reporters Without Borders is amazed that the presence of police who are supposed to protect him has had no deterrent effect on those responsible for the threats, and calls on the authorities to accept that they have a duty to take effective action.
RSF - Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by an increase in threats and intimidation attempts against freelance journalist Abubacarr Saidykhan, who – along with Daily News reporter Baboucarr Ceesay, the Gambian Press Union’s vice-president – already received death threats by email in October.
After talking to Saidykhan, Reporters Without Borders is amazed that the presence of police who are supposed to protect him has had no deterrent effect on those responsible for the threats, and calls on the authorities to accept that they have a duty to take effective action.
Water management remains significant constrain to agricultural development in Africa - Experts
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| A dws-waterfootprint-Irrigation |
Think-tanks from the International Water Management
Institute (IWMI) on Monday said water management remains one of the most
significant constrains to agricultural development in Africa.
The experts believe future
increases in food supplies and economic prosperity for the rural poor will come
mainly from improved agricultural water management combined with other
interventions contributing to production and productivity of agriculture.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
BIGGEST INTERVENTION!
IFAD to fund US$34 million project to
increase food security in Gambia
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| A rice field in Central River Region of the Gambia under the Ifad-funded PIWAMP project |
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The Journey To Mansakonko
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| The Trans-Gambia Highway is the most important road in The Gambia, running across the center of the nation in a north-south direction. Part of this road is still begging to be constructed for nearly four years now/PHOTO/Radosław Botev. |
Agribusiness fair to link stakeholders in food chain
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| PHOTO BY M.E. NJIE |
An Agribusiness Fair dubbed “Lumo in the city” slated for
November 11-17, 2012 at Dream Park, Senegambia, is intended to create linkages
between farmers, fishermen, and gardeners consumers, buyers and suppliers in an
effective manner.
The organisers said on Tuesday that bringing together
stakeholders in the food chain will enhance effective communication between the
business sector and the community at large. More than 65 participants are
expected to attend the fair.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
US judge jails anti-Muslim filmmaker for a year
LOS ANGELES: The man behind the
anti-Islam video which sparked widespread protests in the Muslim world
was jailed for a year Wednesday for breaching the terms of his probation
for a previous offense.
Mark Basseley Youssef will serve the sentence in federal prison after
he admitted four allegations of using false identities, violating the
terms of his probation for a bank fraud conviction in 2010.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
EU GOVERNANCE PROJECT: First step to foster democracy, human rights in Gambia
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| EUD Offices in The Gambia |
“Today’s workshop is the first step in an important programme to foster democracy and human rights, Madam Agnes Guillaud, Chargée d’affaires, EU Delegation to The Gambia said on November 1 during a stakeholders meeting on “Journalists and the Media” held in Bakau.
“The Journalists and the Media Project” is a component of the European Union Delegation (EUD) and Gambian Government joint Governance Programme.
Monday, November 5, 2012
GPU boycotts forum meant to discuss way forward for media
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| Emil Touray, GPU President |
Members say nothing warrants such a decision
(Gambia News Online) - The leadership of the Gambia Press Union (GPU) has decided to boycott stakeholders’ forum in which it’s invited as a “main stakeholder” to discuss the preliminary report that gives an overview of the findings on the situation of the journalists and media in The Gambia.
(Gambia News Online) - The leadership of the Gambia Press Union (GPU) has decided to boycott stakeholders’ forum in which it’s invited as a “main stakeholder” to discuss the preliminary report that gives an overview of the findings on the situation of the journalists and media in The Gambia.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Ghana: Political mood keeps gaining momentum ahead of presidential elections
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| Ghana's new presidential palace: the Golden Jubilee House worth an estimated $50 million, incumbent Mahama and opposition leader Akufo-Addo races towards this edifice which has been disputed over its cost. PHOTO:Panoramio |
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