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Police Bans Street Selling in Banjul

Accordingto reliable sources, the police have mounted a street clearing exercise to stopvendors from selling their food items and wares in the streets of Banjul. Accordingto our sources, the police at Banjul station last week cracked down onvendors selling food items and goods in the streets of Banjul and confiscated their goods andtables for identification purposes at the court. When contacted, the police public relationofficer, ASP Sulayman Secka, confirmed the story as true, saying“Yes...

UGANDA: Children eke out a living on the streets

John Kibwola, 14, braves the scorching afternoon sun as he sells his collection of plastic bottles along Acholi Street in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu. "It is from doing this that I get something to eat," Kibwola told IRIN. "I have been selling used plastic bottles and containers for the last two years.” He has been hawking the bottles since he left his village of Cwero, about 65km east of Gulu town. This was after his parents died in an attack by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)...

CONGO: More children on the streets

Louya, a 16-year-old boy begging in the Fonde market of Pointe-Noire, Congo's southern port city, said he was an orphan who had lived on the streets since 1997. "Muké na satu, muké na satu ['I am hungry, I am hungry' in Kituba]," he beseeched passersby. Like Louya, several other barefoot boys and girls were begging for money or doing odd jobs to pay for food. The children are part of a growing number living on Congo's streets, say specialists. According to Florent Niama, managing director of...

Plane crash in Congo kills at least 70

In Goma, on theeastern side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), at least 70 people,according to officials, have died because of a plane crash yesterday. VOA has reported that as many as 100 peoplecould have been on board the plane at the time of its crash. A director of Hewa Bora Airways, the airline involved in theincident said that "we [the airline] have managed to save most of thepassengers who have been evacuated to hospitals." Naomi Schwarz, a journalist onthe scene described...

Immigration Dept. Adopts Zero Tolerance for Street Begging

The Gambia Immigration Department (GID) yesterday afternoon issued a news release to this paper, warning that the department would henceforth no longer condone the social phenomenon of begging in the streets which, the release indicates, is on the up. According to the department, the habit of street begging is lamentably and regrettably increasing in the country, so much so that the GID is left with no option but to warn all those involved to desist from the habit or risk arrest, prosecution or...

SENEGAL: Why the`talibe’ problem won’t go away

Empty cans used for begging line the entrance of a house in the overcrowded neighbourhood of Grand Yoff in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, where a `marabout’ [Koranic teacher] and 10 boys rent two mosquito-infested rooms. The boys sleep together on the concrete floor. Each morning they get up, take the empty cans and head onto the street to beg for breakfast. These boys are `talibes’, followers of a `marabout’, to whom they were entrusted by their families to learn the Koran. But their...

Over $7m Westfield-Sukuta Road Project Ratified

As part of its fourth meeting in the 2007 legislative year, the National Assembly on Wednesday ratified a loan Agreement amounting to US $ 7.705 million between the Islamic Development Bank and the government of the Republic of The Gambia for the reconstruction of the West Field- Sukuta road project. The loan- which is expected to be repaid over a period of 25 years including a seven-year grace period- has a service scheme not exceeding 2.5% of the loan amount calculated on an annual...

BAC disburses over D200,000

Mr. Sereign Modou Joof, the public relations officer of Brikama Area Council, has revealed that BAC has recently invested over D200,000 in the re-construction of some of the secondary roads within Kombo Central, Kombo South and Kombo North. According to Mr. Joof this is in a bit to make sure that villages and wards have access to go about their business during the rainy season. Mr. Joof said: “It has come to the council’s notice that the roads are hardly habitable in these areas during the...

Domestic animals obstructing traffic

It has come to the notice of the Daily Observer that domestic animals like cows, sheep, donkeys, goats and pigs are seen roaming about the Kairaba Avenue. This roaming of animals on our busy roads is obstructing the current flow of motor traffic in the metropolitan area of Greater Banjul. It is a fool hardiness to allow these animals to roam freely in the highly congested metropolitan area where thousand of vehicles plights daily. As seen in the pictures captured by the Daily Observer...

SUDAN: Juba's street children survive at risk of HIV

In the marketplaces of Juba, South Sudan's capital, young boys chant: "Washing feet, washing feet!" Others simply stand with their hands out, asking repeatedly for "a little money" or "a bit of food". These children, who sleep on the steps of buildings or in abandoned market stalls, are the fallout of the 21-year civil war that split their region apart; many of them can barely remember the families they were torn from by the violence that engulfed their villages, forcing them to run. Nobody...