The Gambian authorities on Thursday shut the only independent radio station in the nation that has continued to broadcast news, according to local journalists.

According to a press release issued by the New York-based media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday, quoting local journalists, said officials of the state security outfit, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) summoned Ismaila Ceesay, managing director of Taranga FM, a community radio station based in Sinchu Alhagie village, southwest of Banjul, for interrogation and ordered the station off the air until further notice.

Defying a warning to stay away from The Gambia, American musician Jermaine Jackson, held a concert in the tiny West African nation this weekend, in honour of his later brother, Michael Jackson, PANA reported Sunday.

The Accra-based Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) recently advised Jermaine to stay away from The Gambia under President Yahya Jammeh, citing human rights violations by the government.

Gambian lawyers are currently boycotting all the courts in the tiny West African nation following a decision by prosecutors at the state law office to charge one of their colleagues, Moses Richards with sedition and giving false information to a public officer, APA learns here on Wednesday.

The President of the Gambia Bar Association, Sheriff Tambedou is quoted by the Wednesday edition of the Foroyaa newspaper as saying that the Bar started their action on Monday10th of January to seek protection and respect for their professional activities and that they will resume their normal duties on Thursday 14th of January 2011. He said the decision was arrived after members of the Bar agreed that no lawyer will appear in any court in the Gambia during this period.

He went on to say that the reason for this protest was triggered by the recent arrest, detention and leveling of charges against Barrister Moses Richards and by extension to all of them as barristers. He said Barrister Richards wrote a letter to the Sheriff of the High Court acting on the instructions of his client which was information that was conveyed to him by his client.

Friday, June 04, 2010

The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh Wednesday night conferred the prestigious award of Officer of the Republic of The Gambia ORG (honorary) on Tashawna S Bethea, political and economic officer at the American Embassy in Banjul, in recognition of her immense contributions towards the socio-economic development of The Gambia. 

Mexico recovered from two successive friendly defeats to register a formidable five goal haul against Gambia in rain-soaked Bayreuth, Germany.

Following on from losses against England and the Netherlands, Javier Aguirre’s team made short work of the Gambians, winning convincingly thanks largely to contributions from the Chivas contingent.

L'ex-chef de l'armée gambienne et sept autres personnes, dont de hauts responsables militaires et des hommes d'affaires, ont été condamnés à mort, jeudi, à Banjul où ils étaient jugés pour une présumée tentative de coup d'Etat en 2009 contre le régime de Yahya Jammeh.

"Je déclare coupable tous les prévenus et les condamne à la peine de mort," a déclaré le juge Emmanuel Amabi.

Police have released the name of a 33-year-old woman who died following a disturbance at a newsagents in Glasgow.

Fatou Saine, from the Inverclyde area, is believed to have been stabbed in the McColl's store in St Enoch Square at about 1155 BST on Tuesday.

A man, believed to be in his 40s, was also injured. Ms Saine is understood to have worked in the store and may have known the injured man.

Strathclyde Police said they were treating her death as murder.

The grand musical performance, dubbed as "a tribute to Michael Jackson" to be performed by the late king of pop’s elder brother, Jermaine Jackson and other family members, is fully set to roll off Saturday evening at Gambia’s Independence Stadium in Bakau, some 11 kilometres outside of Banjul, the capital.

As part of the on-going 5th Kanilai International Cultural Festival, this is the first of its kind since Michael Jackson’s sudden death.