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Following Hydara's death, Saine continued to edit The Point, making it a daily in 2006. It soon became the Gambia's only independent newspaper. 2009 arrests. On 2 February 2009, Saine and Point reporter Modou Sanyang were arrested by Gambian police for suspicion of "publishing and spreading false information". Sanyang was released with a ...
Deyda Hydara (June 9, 1946 – December 16, 2004) was a co-founder and primary editor of The Point, a major independent Gambian newspaper. He was also a correspondent for both AFP News Agency and Reporters Without Borders for more than 30 years. Hydara also worked as a Radio presenter in the Gambia called Radio Syd during his early years as a ...
Freedom Newspaper – online. The Standard – online. The Daily News – online.
The fight to overturn the FGM ban in the Gambia In addition to banning the practice in 2015, the Gambian government also adopted a national strategy and policy last September to end the practice ...
GENEVA (Reuters) -A Swiss court on Wednesday convicted a former government minister from Gambia of crimes against humanity under former dictator Yahya Jammeh and jailed him for 20 years. The ...
Banjul, the Gambia. Circulation. 10,000 (at peak) ISSN. 0796-1359. The Independent was a biweekly newspaper published in Banjul, the Gambia. [1] The paper was started in July 1999 with 25 staffers and freelance reporters, [2] but after multiple raids, acts of arbitrary arrest and detention, and unsolved acts of arson, The Independent ceased ...
The Daily Observer. Coordinates: 13.475°N 16.676°W. 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 ...
A German court on Thursday convicted a Gambian man of murder and crimes against humanity for involvement in the killing of government critics in his West African homeland. The killings took place ...