Award-winning Gambian Journalist Attends 2017 Master Class in South Africa

Joof interviewing a rice farmer in Salikenni, North Bank Region (Photo Credit: Mamadou Edrisa Njie/Facebook/March 2017)

NAQAA: GPU journalism school curriculum in line with expectations

Amadou Jallow (right) said the school’s curriculum ascribes to lifelong learning opportunities and  possibilities of self employment, while Saikou Jammeh (left) and Maimuna Sidibeh (center) listen. (Photo Credit: Sanna Camara)

D.A. Jawo hopes GPU School will contribute to national reconciliation

GPU J-School alumni Adam Jobe, flanked by colleagues Mary Gomez and Zainab Faal, is a winner of the 2015 Technology and Innovation Reporting Award (Photo Credit: M.S.Joof/TNBES/2013)

USA’s NSA, UK’s GCHQ listed as ‘Enemies of the Internet’

The seal of the U.S. National Security Agency. The first use was in September 1966, replacing an older seal which was used briefly. For more information, see here and here. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Three of the government bodies designated as “Enemies of the Internet” are located in democracies that have traditionally claimed to respect fundamental freedoms, the international press freedom agency, Reporters Without Borders, RSF, has said.

They are the Centre for Development of Telematics in India, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in the United Kingdom, and the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States.

RSF said identifying government units or agencies rather than entire governments as Enemies of the Internet “allows us to draw attention to the schizophrenic attitude towards online freedoms” that prevails in some countries.

The 2014 Enemies of the Internet report published on “World day against Cyber censorship” on March 12, stated that the NSA and GCHQ have spied on the communications of millions of citizens including many journalists.

Court reschedules trial of two journalists in Gambia

The Banjul Magistrates Court on Tuesday rescheduled the trial of Musa S. Sheriff, Editor-In-Chief of The Voice newspaper and Sainey MK Marenah, a freelance journalist.

Both have pleaded not guilty to charges of “conspiracy” and “publication of false news” brought against them by the police over a political defections article published by The Voice on December 6, 2013.

They are expected to reappear in court on February 4, 2014 at 12 pm.

Senegal: No longer a sanctuary for African dissidents

The West African State has adopted a policy of expelling African refugees critical of their home governments

Macky Sall (L) was invited by Yahya Jammeh (R) to attend The Gambia’s 48^th Independence Anniversary (Photo taken from Scoops de Ziguinchor)

The Gambia: 2014 national budget is D8.6 billion

The budget estimate includes a budget support of D313 million from World and African Development banks. (Photo credit: Central Bank of The Gambia, CBG)

The Gambia Jails Former Government Officials

In August, The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh had vowed never to forgive the three former top officials of his government (Photo credit: Seyllou/AFP/Nov2011)

The Gambia Government say to levy heavy tax on tobacco

The new measures came 17 days after an anti-drugs and tobacco activist hints at stiffer tobacco control measures (Photo credit: Demba Kandeh/Globe/FPI/Dec2012)

5 years jail term for opposition national treasurer in Gambia

Judge said he is “satisfied that the prosecution has proven its case with certainty required by the law" (Photo: Daily Observer)

Again, GPU ask Gambia government to investigate killing of Deyda Hydara

“The killers of Deyda Hydara must be brought to justice now,” demands Gibairu Janneh, the journalists Union’s executive director (Photo credit: Unknown)

Senegalese authorities ‘threaten’ to expel Gambian journalist Abubacarr Saidykhan

 Abubacarr Saidykhan/Photo:Facebook

Senegalese authorities have “threatened” to expel Gambian freelance journalist, Abubacarr Saidykhan on Monday, if he continue to be opposed to the Gambian regime, according to reports.

Saidykhan has been living in the Senegalese capital Dakar in self-imposed exile since fleeing The Gambia in October 2012 over reported “death threats” leveled against him by unidentified men believed to be state security agents.

Prior to his flight, freelance journalist Saidykhan was arrested and detained in September 2012 by the Banjul Bureau of the International Police Agency, INTERPOL, after he and a colleague journalist, Baboucarr Ceesay, had applied for a police permit to peacefully demonstrate against President Yahya Jammeh’s execution of nine death row inmates by firing squad.

Reports indicated that two senior officials of the President Macky Sall-led Government met Saidykhan recently over the fate of his asylum application – and told him “Senegal will not allow any Gambian fugitive in Senegal to continue to be actively involved in opposition to the authorities in The Gambia”.

EU calls for swift enquiry into Chief Manneh’s disappearance

“His disappearance has now transcended press freedom matters, it is both a national and a universal human right concern,” according to the EU.

Elaborate and confusing comments over whereabouts of missing journalist raises fears he is dead

Just as the search continues – one can only hope that if it comes to an end – Chief will tell the world his tale of woe (the story about all the horrible things that have happened to him) since his disappearance into thin air on July 7, 2006.

‘Internet law furthers crackdown on free expression’

ARTICLE19 says the law forms part of a pattern of intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and government critics.

The Gambia: MFWA alarmed by ‘threat to online freedom’

Nana Grey Johnson, Minister of Information and Communication, said this new law provides deterrent punishment for such persons who are engaged in “treacherous campaigns against The Gambia both internally and outside”

YJAG urges Gambia to investigate dissapearance of former President

A MESSAGE ON WPD WAS: Protect Journalists, Promote Professionalism, Support Media Development (Photo Credit: MSJoof/Globe/FPI)

Daily Observer Editor, Assan Sallah, is missing

Assan Sallah, Daily Observer news editor and former YJAG President reportedly fled to Senegal last Wednesday (Photo credit: TNBES)

The Gambia drops 19 places in 2013 Global Peace Index

The world has become 5 per cent less peaceful since 2008 (Photo Credit: Institute for Economics and Peace)

Prosecutors cut one of six charges against editor Jobe

 

Daily Observer Editor Alagie Jobe has been in State custody since his arrest in February 2013