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President Jammeh Must Weigh His Words!
Jun 30, 2009, 23:17

Banjul, The Gambia Journal 1st July


Tourism is the fastest growing sector in The Gambia, generating over D500 million in revenues annually, accounting for about 16% of the Gross Domestic Product, and providing more foreign exchange than any other sector as well as generating thousands of jobs. Its prospects do not depend on the rains, nor on Government-provided inputs, or on a politically sensitive constituency like the farming community. To the government, the industry is just too lucrative and unlike the vast population of farmers, an amorphous mass scattered in remote areas of the country, its stakeholders are sizeable, more manageable, urban-based and closely within the range of tax and revenue collectors as well as regulators.

The Gambian Intelligentsia, The Case Of Bala Gaye And Lamin Juwara
Jun 29, 2009, 11:06

Banjul, The Gambia Journal 29th June


Thinking of the character and quality of the Gambian intelligentsia and how it has measured up to its responsibilities to the nation and its people is something that has been a subject of discussion on our weekly board meeting. In fact we have even wondered if the Gambian intellectual class of men of letters, academicians, graduates, teachers, journalists, professionals and the enlightened sections of the upper middle-class are aware of themselves as an intelligentsia or a social strata with special characteristics and responsibilities setting them apart from the rest of society. A Gambian commentator once wrote that The Gambia has a collection of intellectuals but hardly any intelligentsia. But could this really be so? Perhaps the writer has brought in the element of functionalism in the definition, the usual confusion or deliberate mixing of a term and its concept.

Why Didn’t Jammeh Go To Abuja?
Jun 22, 2009, 14:31

 Banjul, The Gambia Journal 22nd June 


President Yahya Jammeh actually did not leave Banjul International Airport for the ECOWAS Heads of State summit on Sunday 21st June 2009, as many were made to believe. As late as the night of Saturday 20th June, GRTS radio and television broadcasts informed the public of Jammeh’s planned departure the next day, Sunday, asking all who were to be at the airport for seeing off the president to be at the airport an hour before departure time. All the official formalities had been put in place, with the traffic cleared ahead of the awaited presidential motorcade and in place were also scores of top government officials and members of Banjul ’s diplomatic community waiting at the airport lounge, and outside, the usual APRC crowd of dancing women, all to see off the Gambian leader. But Mr. Jammeh changed his mind at the last minute. Mr. Jammeh instead sent her vice, Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy to represent him at the meeting.

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Arrest and trial of trade union leaders and journalists
Jul 5, 2009, 00:17

Banjul, The Gambia Journal 5th July


Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus
Junkung Jammeh
President
Office of the President
Banjul
Republic of The Gambia
info@statehouse.gm
+ 220-422.70.34
July 3rd 2009
Arrest and trial of trade union leaders and journalists
Dear Mr. President,
We write on behalf of the TUC, Amnesty International (UK) and the National
Union of Journalists ( UK & Ireland ) to strongly protest at the arrests and
subsequent trial taking place today of union leaders and journalists by your
authorities.

Talk Of HIV/AIDS AN AU In Jammeh’s Absence
Jul 3, 2009, 00:52

Banjul, The Gambia Journal 3rd July


Researchers and policymakers must refocus their attention on finding a cure for HIV/AIDS to safeguard the future of mothers and the unborn children, 300,000 of whom are infected in Africa every year, a top UN official said at the Sirte AU summit in Libya.
UN Joint Program for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director Michael Sidibeh said the debate on finding a vaccine and a cure for the pandemic could help save more than 22 million people affected by the disease in Africa and cut the newborn infections rapidly.
“We need to bring back the debate on cure and vaccine for HIV/AIDS and urge the whole world to investment in a cure,” the UNAIDS chief told journalists in an interview on the sidelines of the African Union Summit in Sirte, Libya.
The UNAIDS chief said the number of newborn children getting infected every year continues to increase, further raising the burden of treatment.

CILLS Workshop On Food Security
Jul 3, 2009, 00:50

Banjul, The Gambia Journal 3rd July


CILLS or the Permanent Inter- State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, with the support of the European Union, and the collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture is organizing a three-day national validation forum on food security at the Seaview Hotel in Kololi. According to the organizers it was since the early 1960s that CILLS started to provide a framework for all the groups and actors of Sahelian societies to participate in the definition of their own vision of the future. He said this process culminated in the elaboration and validation of the strategic framework for sustainable food security in each of the nine CILLS member countries.

Raising the stakes Over Case Of seven Journalists
Jul 3, 2009, 00:46

Banjul, The Gambia Journal 3rd July


In what looks like a tit for tat reaction to the protest notes sent by the United States and UK ambassadors on Wednesday, the Gambian state has raised the stakes by increase increasing its charges against the seven journalists. The two diplomats had written separate letters calling on government to free the journalists and to show more respect to the rights to free expression in the country. The same day the letters appeared on some of the Gambian newspapers the journalists were served with two more charges each with “conspiracy to publish seditious publication” and “criminal defamation.”

NEPAD Soon Part Of AU Authority?
Jun 30, 2009, 23:10

 

 Banjul, The Gambia Journal 30th June


African leaders gathered at Sirte on Tuesday 30th June to discuss the final details in the integration of the New Partnership for Africa ’s Development (NEP A D) into the organs of the African Union (AU), with a new proposal for a treaty establishing NEPAD as an organ of the soon to be formed AU Authority.

The leaders are expected to approve a radical remake of the key organs governing the NEPAD structure, putting a ministerial team at the top management of the organization - board of directors - and making the organization’s chief executive an AU employee.

     
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A Barrage of Criticisms and Accusations of Plagiarism
Jul 2, 2009, 18:52

I have been a consistent reader of your well-read journal, I think from the onset, thrilled by the diversity and richness of the subject matters that you often touch on. But recently I have come across a barrage of criticisms and accusations of plagiarism by some individuals in an online discussion list related to one of your editorials, The Gambian Intelligentsia: The Case of Bala Gaye and Lamin Juwara.

Last minute protest for arrested Gambian journalists
Jul 2, 2009, 22:50

Last minute protest for arrested Gambian journalists




Please join Amnesty UK and the NUJ, TUC and IFJ tomorrow for a snap protest against the Gambian government, which is bringing sedition charges against seven Gambian journalists and trade unionists who have offended the President. The government has now brought their trial forward to tomorrow in an attempt to avoid publicity. But in vain! Come along and show that you are not amused.

Where: Gambian High Commission, 57 Kensington Ct, London, W8 5DG (Nearest tube High Street Kensington)
When: 12.45 - 1.30pm, Friday 3 July

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