July 11

• Gambia: Call for Justice 7 Years After Chief Manneh Disappears [press release]

  This month marks exactly seven years since Chief Ebrimah Manneh, a reporter for a pro-government newspaper in The Gambia, the Daily Observer, disappeared. The Media Foundation for... Read more »

July 05

• Gambia: Gambians Could Face 15 Years in Jail for Spreading "False News" Online

  The Gambian National Assembly, the country's legislative body, has passed into law an amendment to the Information and Communication Act, imposing stiffer sanctions on persons... Read more »

July 02

• Gambia: Journalist Goes Missing After Another Is Released From Prison

  Pa Sulay Jadama, a freelance photojournalist, who was arrested by officers of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), has finally been released on June 26, 2013, after spending six... Read more »

February 01

• Gambia: Rights Groups Call for End to State Harassment Against Gambian Journalist [press release]

  Dear President Jammeh, Read more »

January 11

• Gambia: Journalist Harassed, Detained Without Charge [press release]

  Gambian authorities should immediately release Abdoulie John, a journalist who has been detained without charge in Banjul since Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said... Read more »

December 17, 2012

• West Africa: Murdered Journalists Symbols of Impunity [press release]

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December 14, 2012

• Gambia: Gambian Police Arrest Brother of Exiled Journalist

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December 10, 2012

• Gambia: Renowned Gambian Religious Leader Held Incommunicado for Days [press release]

  Imam Baba Leigh, an Islamic cleric of Kanifing South Mosque was, on 3 December, 2012, picked up from his home by plain-clothes officers from the notorious National Intelligence... Read more »

November 16, 2012

• Gambia: Gambian Journalist Reports Second Set of Death Threats [press release]

  A Gambian journalist who said he received an emailed death threat in late October now says he has been threatened verbally by a group of men who drove by his home in a... Read more »

October 25, 2012

• Gambia: Decision Welcomed to Drop Charges Against Two Gambian Journalists [press release]

  The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the move by Gambian authorities to drop charges against two journalists who were arrested on 6 September 2012 for seeking... Read more »

September 11, 2012

• Gambia: Gambian Journalists Charged After Requesting to Protest Against Executions [press release]

  ARTICLE 19 calls on the Gambian police to immediately release and drop all charges brought against two journalists that were detained while trying to apply for necessary permission... Read more »

July 11, 2012

• Gambia: Newspaper Correspondent Arrested [press release]

  The distressing string of journalist arrests continues in Gambia, as Sidiq Asemota, senior legal correspondent for the Daily Observer, was jailed on Tuesday on unknown charges. Read more »

June 22, 2012

• Gambia: Police Detain Newspaper Editor [press release]

  Abdul Hamid Adiamoh, managing editor of privately-owned Today newspaper, was on June 20, 2012 detained by the Gambian Police on the orders of the Banjul Magistrates' Court over... Read more »

May 23, 2012

• Gambia: Police Chief Says Long-Missing Journalist Is in the U.S. [press release]

  The Gambian Inspector General of Police, Yankuba Sonko, reportedly said that Interpol confirmed to Gambian authorities that a journalist who has been missing since 2006 is actually... Read more »

May 04, 2012

• Africa: International Federation of Journalists Welcomes Landmark ACHPR Resolution On Protection of Journalists [press release]

  The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the unanimous decision of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) in adopting a landmark... Read more »

April 18, 2012

• Gambia: New Report Highlights Draconian Media Laws [press release]

  ARTICLE 19 has found significant flaws in the laws regulating the media and free speech in the Gambia, as well as persistent harassment and intimidation of journalists and human... Read more »

January 25, 2012

• Gambia: Former Minister Gets Life Sentence for Seditious T-Shirt [press release]

  A former Gambian information minister has been sentenced to life for conspiring to overthrow the President with T-shirts demanding an end to dictatorship, report the Media... Read more »

November 29, 2011

• Gambia: On Election Day, President Displays Contempt for Press Freedom [press release]

  As Gambians went to the polls last week to vote, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh rejected international criticism over the country's press freedom record, which, since Jammeh took... Read more »