By Own Correspondent – Dr Isatou Touray Executive Director of the Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP) and Amie Bojang-Sissoho, programme co-ordinator were yesterday arraigned at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court charged with theft. The charge alleged that Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang-Sissoho sometime in the year 2009, in Banjul and diverse places in The Gambia, jointly stole the sum of 30,000 Euros being money provided by the YALOCAMBA SOLIDARIDAD of Spain to GAMCOTRAP. Both denied the charge. In applying for bail, Lawyer Mboge who led a team of defence counsel told the... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Kigali – BBC – Rwandan FDLR rebel leader has been arrested in France on war crimes charges, the International Criminal Court says. Callixte Mbarushimana Callixte Mbarushimana is accused in the sealed warrant of 11 counts of murder, rape and other crimes during the long conflict in DR Congo. FDLR fighters were recently accused of taking part in the mass rape of several hundred people in eastern DR Congo of which they deny any responsibility for the attacks. After a Tutsi-dominated group took power in Rwanda, they fled into what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo,... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – As the fighting between Casamance armed groups at the Gambian border dies down and some of the defeated combatants seek sanctuary within the immediate border villages in The Gambia, reports are reaching Foroyaa that over a dozen of them were apprehended in Bulock and a few at Bajana and Sutusinjang. The information gathered from Bulock village points out to the fact that on Saturday three well known suspected armed combatants were apprehended from the village and one of them goes by the nick name of Zariko. The apprehensions were reported to have been made in Bulock... Continue Reading
Article by Kimani wa Wanjiru – Flashback: May 22, 1970: “A sudden, frenzied and unusual search in my cell. I didn’t know exactly what they were looking for. But they found leaves of toilet paper I had written a poem on. They confiscated all the 14 verses of my poem Kamliwaze (Go and Comfort Him). It is a pity I’ve lost it, especially that I had memorized only the first four stanzas of it. The rest is now gone and lost. Fortunately they couldn’t find the other three poems (Nshishiyelo ni Lilo, Tuza Moyo and Jipu), which I had wrapped... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – SIRTE, Libya (AFP) – The President Moamer Kadhafi of Libya warned ahead of a vote on possible independence for south Sudan that a partition of the country would be a “contagious disease” that could spread to other African states. He said on on Sunday at the opening of an Arab-Africa summit in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte that “What is happening in Sudan could become a contagious disease that affects the whole of Africa.” “We must recognise that this event is dangerous,” he said of the planned January 9 referendum on southern Sudan independence which... Continue Reading
