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Foroyaa is a newspaper located in Serrekunda, the Gambia. It was first launched in July 1987, and is owned by the People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), an opposition political party that was instrumental in bringing the downfall of ex-president Yahya Jammeh in the 1 December 2016 election .
The statement ran in The Point and a weekly newspaper, Foroyaa, on 11 June. The Gambian government responded by arresting six journalists: Pap Saine, News Editor Ebrima Sawaneh, and reporters Sarata Jabbi-Dibba and Pa Modou Faal of The Point; and editor Sam Saar and reporters Emil Touray of Foroyaa.
The paper, Gambia's first daily newspaper, [self-published source] was founded by Mae Gene and Kenneth Best in 1990. Kenneth Best had previously managed another paper called the Daily Observer in Liberia , until the First Liberian Civil War caused him to relocate with his family to the Gambia. [2]
Kenneth Best. Kenneth Yakpawolo Best (born 28 October 1938) is a Liberian journalist who founded the Liberian newspaper The Daily Observer and a paper of the same name in The Gambia. [1] [2] He is the nephew of Americo-Liberian journalist of Caribbean descent Albert Porte. [3]
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It began publishing its own newspaper, Foroyaa, in July 1987, where it was critical of the pro-Western foreign policy of Dawda Jawara, and opposed the Senegambia Confederation. In 1987, it put forward five candidates in the parliamentary election, but all were defeated. In 1992, it put forward 14 candidates, but again, all were defeated.
Ndow was born in 1926 as the first daughter of the shop owner William Njie and Elizabeth Njie. She belonged to the Wolof ethnic group and was Catholic. [2] [1] She had her primary and secondary education at St. Joseph's Infant Primary and Secondary schools. After graduating from school in 1945, she went to Achimota College in the Gold Coast ...