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NCAC, UNESCO Observe African World Heritage Day

The National Center for Arts and Culture (NCAC) and The Gambia National Commission for UNESCO on the 5th May 2022 celebrated the African World Heritage Day as proclaimed by the 38th session of the General conference of UNESCO in November 2015. The celebration that was held at the NCAC conference […]

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“Defend the Republic”

I just want to take the opportunity to express heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to my colleagues in the civil society under the leadership of TANGO and to The Gambia Press Union and all its journalists and media houses and indeed to the People of The Gambia for your show of […]

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Journalism is not activism: “A tiger doesn’t proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.”Activism and Political Bias Are Destroying People’s Faith in Journalism

Fatoumatta: The Gambian private media fought twenty-two years of former president Yahya Jammeh’s military turned civilian autocracy and suffered brutal persecutions, nocturnal arson attacks, torture, and death threats without compromising their reputation and professional integrity; those days, Gambian journalists under a despot played a heroic role in fighting for the […]