Dancing In the Dark With Jammeh’s Diehard Supporters

They came to dance in green t-shirts adorned with Yahya Jammeh’s grinning face and to sing the old songs of adulation as though he never went away. The Gambia’s former ruling party, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), could once expect legions of paid supporters at rallies, bolstered by a phalanx of soldiers … Read more

PPF Asks Gambia Gov’t To Drop Charges Against Journalist

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Yahya Jammeh, President of Islamic Republic of The Gambia expressed concerned over the sentenced of four years of imprisonment to journalist Alhagie Abdoulie Ceesay. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged The Gambian government to take action against the court orders and drop charges … Read more