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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Ceesay was the features editor at The Daily Observer newspaper in Banjul and editorial writer from 1999 to 2006. He was curator of The Gambia National Museum from 1999 to 2008, curating art and ethnography exhibitions. From January 2008 to August 2008 he was Deputy Permanent Secretary and Director of the Press Office for President Jammeh.
Early life and military service Jammeh was born on 25 May 1965 in Kanilai, a village in the Foni Kansala district of the Western Division of the Gambia. He is the son of Aja Fatou Ashombi Bojang, a housewife and trader, and Abdul Aziz James Junkung Jammeh, a career wrestler. Jammeh's grandparents migrated to the Gambia from the Casamance region of Senegal. He had a rural upbringing as part of ...
Daily Observer may refer to: The Daily Observer, the only daily newspaper of Antigua and Barbuda, est. 1993; Northern Daily Leader, published in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, and formerly known as The Daily Observer; The Daily Observer, est. 2011; The Daily Observer, published in The Gambia; Liberian Observer, which has also used the ...