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The Daily Observer is a newspaper published in Bakau in Banjul, the Gambia. [1] The paper, Gambia's first daily newspaper, [2] [self-published source] was founded by Mae Gene and Kenneth Best in 1990. [3] Kenneth Best had previously managed another paper called the Daily Observer in Liberia, until the First Liberian Civil War caused him to ...
Freedom Newspaper – online. The Standard – online. The Daily News – online.
Baba Galleh Jallow. Baba Galleh Jallow is a Gambian academic and journalist who was appointed as executive secretary of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) in February 2018. Born in Farafenni, Jallow completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Sierra Leone.
Ndey Tapha Sosseh (born 1979) is a Gambian journalist and unionist. In 2004, she became editor-in-chief of The Daily Observer, making her the first female editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper in the Gambia 's history. From 2008 to 2011, she served as president of the Gambia Press Union . Sosseh was a government target during the final years of ...
The Daily Observer reporter Ebrima Manneh is believed by human rights organizations to have been arrested in July 2006 and secretly held in custody since then. Manneh was reportedly arrested by Gambia's National Intelligence Agency after attempting to republish a BBC report criticizing President Yahya Jammeh . [90]
Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof (22 October 1924 – 2 April 2011) commonly known as Cham Joof or Alhaji Cham Joof, (pen name: Alh. A.E. Cham Joof) was a Gambian historian, politician, author, trade unionist, broadcaster, radio programme director, scout master, Pan-Africanist, lecturer, columnist, activist and an African nationalist who advocated for the Gambia's independence during the colonial era.
30 January 2009 – 12 August 2009. President. Yahya Jammeh. Personal details. Born. ( 1957-04-08) 8 April 1957 (age 67) Neneh MacDouall-Gaye (born 8 April 1957) is a Gambian politician and diplomat. She served as Yahya Jammeh 's last Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2017 and as Gambian Ambassador to the United States in 2009.
Amadou Scattred Janneh (born 17 September 1962 [1]) is a Gambian politician with Gambian and American dual citizenship. [1] A former Minister of Information and Communication for the national government, he was sentenced to life in prison for treason after distributing T-shirts with the slogan "End to Dictatorship Now". [2]