By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout-Africa.com Gambia Bureau Chief in Banjul – Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade yesterday ended a one-day working visit to The Gambia with calls on his Gambian counterpart, President Yahya Jammeh, to help intervene in solving the conflict in neighbouring Casamance. President Wade was met on arrival at the Banjul International Airport by President Jammeh, and they later held talks at the Coco Ocean hotel in Bijilo. Announcing his mission, President Wade said he was on a brotherly visit to The Gambia to seek President Jammeh’s intervention and assistance in solving the conflict in Casamance. “I have done my part... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 17th 2011 |
By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout- Africa.com Gambia Bureau Chief in Banjul – Leader of the opposition National Reconciliation Party (NRP), Hamat Bah, has assured Gambians, especially his party militants that come the 24th November presidential election, his party will deliver surprises. Hamat Bah was speaking in an interview with The Point yesterday, when he spoke on a wide range of issues, including his party’s preparations ahead of the polls, its agenda and priorities, the recent general voter registration exercise, among others. According to Mr. Bah, his party is at the moment preoccupied with the general voter registration that was recently concluded.... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, August 14th 2011 |
By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout-Africa .com Gambia Bureau Chief in Banjul – Ismaila Ceesay Managing Director of Teranga FM, a community radio station located in Sinchu Alagie village in the Kombo North district of the West Coast Region was Wednesday invited to the headquarters of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in Banjul, The Point has learned. Though no reason for Mr. Ceesay’s appearance at the NIA was advanced to this paper, sources close to him said he was asked to suspend the radio station’s daily review of news carried by the local newspapers in the country. According to our sources, the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, August 14th 2011 |
By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout- Africa.com Gambia Bureau Chief In Banjul – The National Organising Secretary of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP), Shyngle Nyassi, has denied reports that his recent trip to the United States of America was to solicit funds for his party. Nyassi, who was speaking in an interview with our reporter yesterday, said his mission to the US was to meet and discuss with UDP party supporters in New York and other places in the US in his capacity as the new National Organising Secretary of the party. According to the longtime ruling APRC party critic,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, August 11th 2011 |
By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout- Africa Gambia Bureau Chief in Banjul – Veteran Cameroonian journalist and Chief Executive Officer of the Star Media in Cameroon has said that corruption is at the heart of poor election reporting in West Africa. Chief Foanyi Nkemayang Paul, who was presenting a paper at the just-concluded Commonwealth-Gambia government organized media forum held at the Sheraton Hotel, said that a good number of journalists have fallen prey to this vice. According to him, elections bring politicians closer to media practitioners and, as a result, the image of the profession is profoundly tarnished with some surmountable problems... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, August 9th 2011 |
