PUBLIC STATEMENT Public Institutions Fail to Comply with Access to Information Act 2021 The Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice informs the public that after submitting requests for information to six public institutions on 14th October 2024, all of them failed to comply with the Access to Information […]
Tag: Gambia
Editorial: Confronting Tribalism in The Gambia – Insights from the 1994 Rwanda Genocide and the Current Fake News Crisis
Alagi Yorro Jallow Fatoumatta: What lessons can Gambian politicians, populist Imams, journalists, and tribal leaders draw from the 1994 Rwanda Genocide and the ongoing fake news crisis? The propagation of identity politics and religious intolerance by politicians, alongside journalists who are seemingly compromised and on the payrolls of political and […]
Concern over Police Action against University Students
PUBLIC STATEMENT Concern over Police Action against University Students On Monday December 2nd, students at the University of the Gambia staged a demonstration within the premises of the Law Faculty to express their grievances at the dismissal of two lecturers Dr. Alieu Gibba and Prof. Matarr Njie by the University authorities. […]
Pa Modou Bojang: A Tarnished Voice That Defiles Journalism with Malice, Mediocrity, and Mendacity—Part 1
By Arfang Madi Sillah, Washington, D.C. If journalism were a cathedral, Pa Modou Bojang, the proprietor of Home Digital FM and Membekering Tv, would not merely be the graffiti artist scrawling obscenities on its sacred walls; he would be the torchbearer setting it ablaze, ignorant of its beauty, blind to […]