Gambia: ‘Prisons Conditions Are Horrible’

Outrage intensify over schoolgirls abduction in Nigeria

Last week, the United States of America announced it will help try to rescue the girls. Image depicts an aircraft of the United States Air Force (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There has been global outrage over the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by the militant group Boko Haram on April 14.

Public protests are holding in Nigeria and across the world while the hashtag (#BringBackOurGirls) gains widespread notice on social media. The girls were taken from a school in the northern state of Borno and there whereabouts remains unknown amid growing anger in Nigeria.

In The Gambia, the Committee on Harmful Traditional Practices, Gamcotrap, and the Child Protection Alliance, CPA, has expressed a message of solidarity to Nigerian government and families of the girls.

Groups call for improved human rights in Gambia

As “Freedom Day” in the Gambia is marked on July 22 by human rights groups across the world, Amnesty International, the Campaign for Human Rights in the Gambia (CHRG) and Coalition for Change – The Gambia (CCG) have expressed serious concerns about the “dire human rights situation in the country”.

The organizations called on the Gambian authorities to end their repression of journalists and human rights defenders and urged the international community to strengthen their efforts to improve the human rights situation in the Gambia.

‘Amnesty fears Baba Leigh’s continued detention’

Carte des pays africains selon le statut de la peine de mort (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Police put ‘bulldozer operative’ on trial

Operation Bulldozer, a brain-child of the Gambian leader,Yahya Jammeh: POTO/MSJoof

The police in Banjul, Gambia’s capital have brought criminal charges against Musa B. Sanneh, a member of the President Yahya Jammeh-established joint-security organisation, Operation Bulldozer.

OperationBulldozer, a brain-child of the Gambian leader, was setup in May 2012 for what Yahya Jammeh said was meant to “clean the country of criminals.”