Analysis

Gambia - Annual Report 2008 - Reporters Without Borders The Gambian press does its best to survive in a climate in which an authoritarian president believes Aids can be cured with ointments and by reading the Koran, where intelligence services are ... [Gambia News]

Many Gambians were surprised when they learnt that the government had revoked the licence of a mining company. Many learnt for the first time that a mining company had been operating in the country. Many have wondered why the whole transaction ... [Gambia News]

Fewer press-related detentions and attacks were reported in 2007, CPJ research showed, but local journalists said the decline reflected several years of intense government suppression. One prominent journalist was slain and others have been forced into exile since 2004, leaving a ... [Gambia News]

D. A. Jawo It is indeed quite hard to understand why, while the rest of the African continent is well on the road to democracy and good governance, this country is moving in the opposite direction, as it is clearly manifested ... [Gambia News]

Maimuna Taal, the former director general of the Gambia Civil Aviation Authority, once considered the star of the aviation safety movement in Africa, quietly left Gambia for England in May after a court cleared her of charges that she had ... [Gambia News]

A. Murder Deyda Hydara Former Managing Editor and proprietor of The Point Newspaper and Treasurer of WAJA. The Point was then a privately owned newspaper published thrice weekly. It is now published daily He was shot dead at close range in the vicinity ... [Gambia News]

Just about a month ago, in the middle of November, the broom of President Jammeh's incessant purges again hit the NIA (National Intelligence Agency), removing its Director General Harry Sambou and replacing him with another "professional", Mr. Pa Jallow. Both ... [Gambia News]

By Mbaye B. Sarr & Mohammed L. Sillah, Courtesy of The Gambia Journal : Yes the increment of the country's electricity production capacity is always welcome news. And given the chronic electricity blackouts of the recent past, the masses have ... [Gambia News]

Households and the business environment in Guinea, Senegal and The Gambia are increasingly plagued by frequent power outages, to such a degree that it has become a top political issue. Now, technicians from the Gambia River Basin Development Organisation, OMVG, promise that a "final ... [Gambia News]

The River Gambia is one of the nature's great creations: navigable, fresh, unpolluted, rich in fish and other resources. It is this river which gave our dear country its name, which is also one more reason why this great potential ... [Gambia News]