By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – Reports reaching this paper have confirmed that Saikou Ceesay, a journalist with the Daily News newspaper and a member of the Gambia Press Union executive committee, was yesterday arrested and is currently detained at Police headquarters in Banjul. Though the police could not be reached for comments, sources said Ceesay’s arrest is in connection with his serving as surety for Nanama Keita, former sports editor of the Daily Observer newspaper, who was facing trial on charges of giving false information, and has reportedly jumped bail, and is now in the United States of America. During... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, November 1st 2011 |
By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – Reliable sources have informed this paper that the Ministry of Youth and Sports in consultation with the Gambia Football Association yesterday agreed to terminate the contract of Paul Put, coach of the senior national football team, and that of Franco Cresintini, an Italian goal keeper trainer. The move, according to sources, is due to Paul Put’s failure to let The Gambia qualify for the African Cup of Nations final which is due to be staged next year in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Sources also told this paper that another reason for Put’s sacking was his... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, November 1st 2011 |
By Gambia Shout-Africa Correspondent – As the countdown to next month’s presidential election gathers pace, four opposition parties Saturday signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a United Front, which paves the way for a convention to select one candidate to face incumbent President Yahya Jammeh in the polls. The Peoples Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism, the National Reconciliation Party, the Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress and the National Alliance for Democracy and Development signed the MOU at the Atlantic hotel in the presence of hundreds of supporters. The move comes after weeks of talks between seven political parties,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, October 31st 2011 |
President Yahya Jammeh has said that The Gambia will never be an enemy to the United States of America because, as he put it, many Gambians including army officers have benefited from one or another program of the government of the United States of America at the expense of US taxpayers’ monies. Jammeh, who was speaking last Thursday during celebrations marking the 50th anniversary and 45th years of existence of the US Peace Corps in The Gambia held at Kanilai village, said the presence of Peace Corps in Africa have helped The US to understand the cultural diversity of Africa.... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, October 31st 2011 |
Gambia: By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – Baba Jobe, former National Assembly majority leader of the ruling APRC party, has been admitted at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) since Sunday, reliable sources have told this paper. Though the exact illness he suffered from was not revealed to this paper, because of what sources say was medical rules, Jobe it would be recalled was arrested on 10th October 2003 and charged with economic crimes. He was convicted and jailed on 26th March 2004 by Justice MA Paul for nine years in prison, and has since then been serving his sentence at... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, October 27th 2011 |
