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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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24 August 2006

Flood in Burkina Faso, Nigeria withdraws from Bakassi

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Law, Citizen Media

Read bloggers' write about flooding in Burkina Faso, Nigeria's withdrawal from the Bakassi peninsula, an opinion about NEPAD and politics in Gambia.

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9 August 2006

Death of Joseph Sankara, Drug menace in Ghana, Prof Chike Obi and Prez Election in Gambia

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Elections, Governance

Burkina Faso's independence day, a Nigerian mathematician, and elections in Gambia

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26 July 2006

Light in darkness, Petroleum prices in Ghana, Famine and Education in Cameroon

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Education, Environment

Read about Light in darkness, Petroleum prices in Ghana, Famine and Education in Cameroon.

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Updates about Gambia

20 April 2011

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

8 April 2011

24 March 2011

English

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says he sets press freedom limits in the country: But press freedom has limits, Jammeh said, and it is he who sets those limits. “One freedom I will never give you is the freedom, the liberty to write whatever you want that you know is not true. There is press freedom, but there's no freedom to lie.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

28 December 2010

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A company simply identifying itself as West Africa Data Centres is taken the bold step to launch the first commercial large-scale data centre, in West Africa, David Ajao reports.

• Ndesanjo Macha

29 November 2010

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afroklectic blogs about ‘Glasses for Africa” initiative: “Nyt Syn collected optical frames from more than 70, 000 people across Denmark. With 6 optometrists (opticians) and a nurse, they travelled to areas in Gambia and Senegal to perform eye tests and fit people with much needed glasses.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

18 November 2010

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Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to build a school in Gambia: “In August 2010 Hannah Braye climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in memory of her friend Lucy raising over £1,000. This will go to help build a school in Dairuharu in Brikama and the first classroom being built will be dedicated to Lucy, a former Gambia Experience client.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

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Against Gambian monarchy is an essay written by Gambian bloggr and writer Amran Gaye: “Our so-called “Opposition” is an almost useless entity. They resort to hyperbole, the last refuge of the desperate, on and off the Internet. They bicker with each other, like little ganaar chicks over mere scatterings of rice seeds.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

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