Reports monitored on Seneweb indicate that eleven people were injured on Thursday, four of them seriously, when a Boeing overshot the runway during take-off, an incident that led to the closure of Diass Blaise Diagne International Airport. According to Seneweb, the B737/300 aircraft, chartered from a private airline, Transair, on […]
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IFJ says 123 journalists and media workers killed in 2023
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 […]
Former First Lady Zineb and ex-President Jammeh retained on new UK, US sanction lists
The United Kingdom renewed its list of sanctioned individuals on Monday, including The Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh, his wife Zineb Jammeh, and former National Intelligence Agency chief Yankuba Badjie. The United Kingdom has maintained broadened travel bans and economic sanctions against the three for human rights violations. Jammeh, whose […]
Ambassador Momodou Lamin Bah presents Letters Of Credence to the Governor General of Canada, H.E. Mary J May Simon
by Saikou Ceesay His Excellency Momodou Lamin Bah, the Ambassador of the Republic of The Gambia to the United States of America with cumulative accreditation to Canada on Monday December 4th, 2023 presented his Letters of Credence to the Governor General of Canada, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary J […]