Africa cannot lay claim on Barack Obama
Aug 7, 2008, 11:54

Banjul, The Gambia Journal

There’s an understandable excitement at the prospect of somebody other than the usual suspects occupying the white House, arguably the most powerful job in the world.

Barack Obama, if he succeeds in beating John McCain in November, will change the tone and texture and even the psychology of not just US politics, but world affairs-It’s not because of what he might do or say,but who he is.As Jesse Jackson would say, he’s moving from the outhouse to the White House

Gambian's minority leader asks the government to free Chief
Jul 23, 2008, 23:45

Banjul, The Gambia Journal

Gambia UPDATE: Gambian's minority leader asks the government to free Chief
Ebrima Manneh

The Minority leader in The Gambian Parliament, Momodou Sanneh on July 3,
2008 called on the government of President Yahya Jammeh to respect the
ECOWAS court ruling by releasing Chief Ebrima Manneh, a detained reporter of
the Banjul-based privately-owned government-controlled newspaper.