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Current Feed ContentMass Detention Without Trials UpdateDetention without trial is still persisting in the Gambia. The people whose names are listed below are still in detention and the state is yet to prefer charges against many of them. This is up to the 1 of June 2008. Courtesy FOROYAA Newspaper 30 May- 1 June 2008. Journalist Ebrima Manneh a senior journalist with the pro-government paper, Daily Obersaver News paper, was arrested by the state security agents since 7 July 2006 at his office in Bakau.He is still at large. Kanyiba Kanyi, a staff...Journalists Trade On Dangerous Ground As African Governments Grow In tolerant to mediaWorld over records have indicatedthat African governments are very hostile to journalists. In most of thesecountries, there are records of killings, tortures and total disappearances ofjournalists and other media workers. The media workers are not also spearedfrom unnecessary attacks from those who are anti press, whose acts are beingendorsed by their governments. These endorsements are not openly done but the factthat the laws will never take its courses is clear indications that...SORIOUS SAMURA: THE ROVING JOURNALISTSORIOUS SAMURA: THE ROVING JOURNALIST We say bravo to Sorious, the Sierra Leonean journalist who risked his life to go to the war-torn Dafur region of Sudan in order to experience the desperate situation of the many refugees there. It is recorded that as many as 2, 000, 0000 people were forced to leave their homes for neighboring Chad. The Dafur crisis is described as the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in recent times. On Sunday April 24, viewers watched the CNN programme on television... |
