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7 March 2012

Africa: Interview With Africa Desk Officer at the Committee to Protect Journalists

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Citizen Media

Abdoulaye Bah interviews Mohamed Keita who runs the Africa desk of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to promote press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report without fear of reprisal.

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9 November 2011

Global: Replacing Moreno Ocampo at the International Criminal Court

Written by Evan Fleischer · Human Rights, Law

Luis Moreno Ocampo's term as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is coming to an end and elections for judges are scheduled for December. The discussions taking place regarding the potential candidates to replace Moreno Ocampo are highlighted here by Evan Fleischer.

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26 September 2011

Protecting African Forests: Wangari Maathai's Legacy

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Development, Environment

Wangari Maathai, a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist and 2004 Nobel prize winner passed away on September 25. She was the first African woman to be awarded the prize and is recognized worldwide in the fight to protect the environment on the African continent.

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24 September 2011

Update on Global Voices Mentorship: Meet the Activists

Written by Leila Nachawati Rego · Announcements

For over a month, ten Global Voices bloggers have been working with activists from ten different countries as mentors of members of the new Blogger Swarm initiative of Activista, the youth network of international development organization ActionAid.

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29 July 2011

Global Voices Bloggers to Mentor Youth Activists from 10 Countries

Written by Solana Larsen · Announcements

Today we announce the names of 10 Global Voices bloggers and 11 activists who will be working together virtually over the next months as part of a new mentoring initiative developed by Global Voices and Activista, the youth network of international development organization, ActionAid.

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30 August 2010

West Africa: Drug Traffickers and Politico-Military Dictators

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Translated by Jannie Lung · Governance, Law

The UN assistant representative in Africa against drug trafficking Cyriaque Sobtafo recently stated that west Africa is now the hub for cocaine trafficking. Many countries are affected and the sudden death of the son of Dadis Camara generated many speculations about the possible involvement of drug dealers in the event.

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17 January 2007

West Africa: What is NOSPETCO?, Aid Does Not Work, Dogon Architecture and Tourism As A Therapy

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Arts & Culture, Development

As we delve into the West African blogosphere this week, our first stop is Nigeria. One issue that is attracting so much attention among Nigerians bloggers is NOSPETCO. What is...

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5 December 2006

Bloggers in West Africa, harsh migration, low bandwidth and Who Killed Deyda?

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Human Rights, Technology

We get to know more about two bloggers in West Africa this week. Keith Smith in Burkina Faso shares his photos, and George Ngwane in Cameroon re-publishes an interview with...

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26 October 2006

Torture in Gambia, “Militocracy” in Africa, Press Freedom and Dirty Water and Gold

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Freedom of Speech, Development

We begin this week's West African blogs round-up with a post in a Gambian blog, Home of the mandinmories, about a Gambian soldier being “Coerced, and tortured” over an alleged...

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19 September 2006

Sports, Health and Politics in West Africa

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Development, Health

We begin this week's blog round-up with sports. The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen…of Ghana blogs about the selection of a new coach for Ghana's senior national football...

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Updates about Gambia

14 May 2012

English

Matt blogs about a short film showing the work done by the Glove project in The Gambia: “The charity works in a relatively unknown area of The Gambia, north of the river, and seeks to work in partnership with rural village communities, improving health, education and sustainable enterprises.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

16 April 2012

English

The Republic of the Gambia has no consulate in Hong Kong. But the city has a population of Mainland Chinese Gambian passport holders seeking residency in HK via the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES). More from David Webb.

• Oiwan Lam

7 February 2012

English

Kathryn interviews Jonathan Groves, the executive chef at Ngala Lodge in the Gambia: “Have you ever cooked for 900 people for a wedding and have 1,500 turn up! No, unsurprisingly, me neither. Jonathan Groves, the superb chef at Ngala Lodge has.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

2 November 2011

English

Lynn blogs about pigs, cows and birds in Gambia: “I got two melons straight from the field and one bag of charcoal for a future barbeque. The most beautiful part of the journey is seeing the birds. Tiny pillar box reds called red billed fire finches and a carmine bee-eater; soft floaty blues called blue bellied rollers; northern red bishops…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

31 July 2011

English

“The first black US Peace Corps volunteer to come to The Gambia, in 1970, nine years after the founding of Peace Corps by former US President John F Kennedy in 1961, has arrived in The Gambia with his family, to share his experience as a peace corps volunteer,” Shout-Africa reports.

• Ndesanjo Macha

26 June 2011

English

Willemien Groot's Guide for African Revolutionaries: 11 Ways to get around internet blockades: “Internet blockades are more the rule than the exception in non-democratic countries. But there are ways to get round them, even though no censorship circumvention tool is 100 percent safe. Rule number 1: you’re clever, but the authorities are cleverer.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

30 May 2011

English

Mathew K. Jallow discuses the legacy of Sir Dawda K Jawara, Gambia's first president: “As president, Sir Dawda Jawara was unlike most African leaders and politicians of his generation; leaders who took advantage of their positions to enrich themselves with the wealth of their people. If there was one negative about the era of Sir Dawda on which there is universal agreement among Gambians, it was that he overstayed as president…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

14 May 2011

English

Learn about the arrest, detention and subsequent release of a judicial reporter of The Daily News in Gambia: “Baba Sillah was assigned to make further findings about the alleged murder of one Cherno Alieu Suwareh, who was allegedly tortured to death by four officers of National Drug Enforcement Agency of The Gambia.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

9 May 2011

English

Ken discusses drug trafficking and African politics. He notes that Kenya, Gambia, Ghana, South Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea have experienced allegations that people high up in government are involved in drug trafficking: “The latest news on this subject is the jailing of Sheryl Cwele, the wife of South Africa’s intelligence minister.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

20 April 2011

English

The Coalition for Change – The Gambia (CCG) dissociates itself from position of the Gambia Government regarding Cote d’Ivoire: “The most recent inconsequential state televised statement of President Jammeh calling for fresh elections and refusing to recognize President Alassane Ouattara in defiance of the international community…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Comments on "Gambia"

Update on Global Voices Mentorship: Meet the Activists

Global Voices seems like a great way to get involved. Putting youth at the forefront of the discussion makes it...
This is amazing and highly commendable looking forward towards more updates,Keep up all.Thanks Patrick Kamotho Fahamu Pan African Fellow.