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I recall on Friday 27 January 2012 I was standing with thousands of Senegalese citizens as well as fellow civil society activists from across West Africa at the l’Obelisque in the heart of Dakar awaiting the announcement of the Constitutional Council on the candidature of Pres. Abdoulaye Bah. At the […]
The current political situation in Senegal is simply the usual classical failure of leaders and institutions in Africa that squarely accounts for the bad governance, instability, and deprivation across the continent. The unilateral announcement by Pres. Macky Sall to postpone the February 25 presidential elections only to be fully endorsed […]
PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 31 December 2023 One hundred and twenty journalists and media workers, including 11 women, have been killed in 2023, announced the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on 31 December. The IFJ, which published an initial list of journalists killed ahead of UN Human Rights Day on 8 December documenting 94 […]
Press statement: (Banjul, 30 Nov., 2023) – The Gambia Press Union (GPU) welcomes today’s verdict and sentencing of Bai Lowe, a former death squad member under ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh, to life imprisonment for his role in the murder of journalist Deyda Hydara. The Higher Regional Court of Celle, a northern […]