Two journalists threatened with death in hostile e-mails

Photo : Baboucarr Ceesay et Abubaccar Saidykhan

Reporters Without Borders is deeply concerned by death threats received in e-mails yesterday by the journalists Baboucarr Ceesay and Abubaccar Saidykhan, against whom charges of conspiracy and inciting violence were dropped earlier this week.

Amid media censorship, two papers hit newsstands

The Mirror's 1st edition and The Daily Standard's 2nd edition/PHOTO/MSJOOF

Two newspapers have hit the newsstands in and around Banjul, the Gambian capital this month, October 2012. 

The Mirror and The Daily Standard are the latest addition to the Gambian newspaper publishing industry, which is often characterised as “not free.”  The new newspapers began publishing a month after the “arbitrary closure” of two leading independent newspapers, The Standard and The Daily News. 

Peaceful demonstration is right

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Criminal case against two Gambian journalists ‘killed’

Mr. Baboucarr Ceesay (L) and Abubacarr Saidykhan were charged "for wanting to demonstrate peacefully" PHOTO/Daily News

The Voice newspaper has gathered that the criminal charges brought against two Gambian journalists who requested a permit to demonstrate peacefully against the August execution of nine death row prisoners is “death and buried”.

The case which dragged for more than a month without legal proceedings was finally “killed” on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 following a meeting the two journalists had with the authorities upon the invitation of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Lamin Jobarteh.

UTG historian denounce demolition of historical heritage near Timbuktu

An ancient shrine in Timbuktu is destroyed in this photo taken on July 1, 2012/CNN

Mr. Ensa Touray, a history lecturer at the University of The Gambia is of the view that “knowledge” in all areas of human interest has been embedded in Timbuktu, a place he regarded as a “centre for intellectuals” across the horn of Africa.

Mr. Touray, who was speaking at a press conference organised by the History Club of the University of The Gambia (UTG) at the Brikama campus, denounced the on-going turmoil that led to the destruction of several valuable shrines and historical heritages in and near Timbuktu, an ancient town in Mali.