By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – The Minister of the Interior, Ousman Sonko, has denied media reports of a hunger strike embarked upon by inmates at the maximum security wing of the State Central Prison Mile 2. His comments followed reports on Monday that inmates at the prison have started a hunger strike since Thursday 20th October in protest against what they considered “unbearable and inhuman treatment that they say are prevailing at the central prisons.” In an interview with this paper yesterday, Interior Minister Ousman Sonko said “there was no hunger strike at Mile 2 prison” as reported. “When I... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, October 27th 2011 |
By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – For development to be sustainable, it is essential to harness and build strong linkages between the three pillars of economic growth, social development and environmental protection, said Gambian-born UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Abdoulie Janneh. “Without such an approach, gains made in one pillar could undermine progress in the other two,” Janneh told the Second Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations recently in New York on the theme “Integration of the Three Pillars is Important for the World … and for Africa” The Second Committee,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, October 19th 2011 |
By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – Incumbent President Yahya Jammeh has his chances of re-election for a fourth term in office boosted further after efforts by seven Gambian opposition parties to agree a single candidate to stand against him ended without any outcome. Leaders from the fragmented opposition UDP, PDOIS, NRP, NADD, GMC, PPP and GPDP held weeks of talks, between September and October this year, on fielding a single candidate against Jammeh, but the talks foundered with no agreement on who should put up the candidate. A press release issued and signed by leaders of the seven parties, among others,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, October 17th 2011 |
By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout-Africa.com Chief Correspondent in the Gambia – The magistrates’ court in Banjul yesterday convicted and sentenced eight foreigners each to 50 years in prison with hard labour, at the end of the multi-million dollar cocaine trial. They were all found guilty of charges of conspiracy to traffic in prohibited drugs, trafficking in drugs, dealing in prohibited drugs, having firearm without authority, importation of firearm without authority, among others. The convicted persons were Ephriam Micheal Chiduben, a Nigerian national, Juan Carlos Sanchez, Eric Bottini, Dose Fermin, Juan Carlos Diaz, and Esteaban Zavala, all Venezuelan nationals, George Sanchez,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, October 16th 2011 |
By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – In a boost to bilateral cooperation between Banjul and Washington, the government of The Gambia and the United States of America yesterday signed an agreement on cooperation to suppress illicit transnational maritime activity. Gambian minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Momodou Tangara, and US ambassador to The Gambia Pamela Ann White appended their signatures on the document on behalf of their respective governments, at a ceremony held at the Laico Atlantic Hotel in Banjul. The agreement, done in recognition of Article 17 of the 1988 United Nations convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, October 12th 2011 |
