July 24

• Gambia: UK MPs Join Campaign Against Repression in the Gambia [press release]

  The long-drawn campaign against the unending brutal human rights violations by the Gambian government led by President Yahya Jammeh is attracting high level support from the... Read more »

July 20

• Gambia: Ending 19 Years of Repression and Impunity in the Gambia - Take Action Now [press release]

  July 22, 2013, marks 19 years of President Yahya Jammeh's rule of West Africa's smallest country, The Gambia, after the 48-year old leader ceased power in 1994 through a military... Read more »

July 08

• Gambia: Online Freedom Threatened as Government Impose Stiffer Punishments [analysis]

  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 10

• Gambia: Seven Years of Disappearance of Gambia's Chief Manneh - Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied [analysis]

  July 7, 2013 marked exactly 7years since Chief Ebrimah Manneh, a reporter of the pro-government newspaper, Daily Observer, in the Gambia disappeared. Chief Manneh was on July 7,... Read more »

July 03

• Gambia: Journalist Released by the NIA, Another Missing

  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 »

July 12

• Gambia: Call for Justice - Seven Years After Gambia's Chief Manneh Disappears [press release]

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• Gambia: Call for Justice - Seven Years After Gambia's Chief Manneh Disappears [press release]

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July 10

• West Africa: Reporter Now Missing for Seven Years [press release]

  July 7, 2013 marked exactly 7years since Chief Ebrimah Manneh, a reporter of the pro-government newspaper, Daily Observer, in the Gambia disappeared. Read more »

July 08

• Gambia: Govt Cracks Down on Internet 'False News'

  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 03

• Gambia: Journalist Released By the NIA, Another Missing [press release]

  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 »

June 19

• Gambia: Gambia Alert - Film-Maker Detained for 25 Hours, Released Without Charge [press release]

  The Public Relations Officer of the Gambia Police Force, ASP David Kujabi recently announced that the police have returned the passports and other documents it confiscated from... Read more »

May 15

• Gambia: Gambian Government Releases Detained Imam - Warns of Intolerance for Freedom of Expression [press release]

  The Gambian government on May 11th, 2013 released a renowned Muslim Cleric and a Human Rights Defender - Imam Baba Leigh after he was arrested and detained on 3rd December, 2012. Read more »

April 18

• West Africa: Gambia Alert - Government Passes Stiff Law On False Information [press release]

  The National Assembly of The Gambia on April 16, 2013, amended sections of the country's Criminal Code to empower the Courts to mete out stiffer punishments to persons found guilty... Read more »

January 29

• West Africa: Video Documentary - 'The Dangerous Business of Journalism in the Gambia' [press release]

  MFWA calls on ECOWAS to ensure The Gambia complies with the ECOWAS Court's judgment on Musa Saidykhan Read more »

January 25

• Gambia: Authorities Arrest Newspaper Staff [press release]

  Officers of the notorious National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on January 18, 2013 arrested and detained three senior administrative staff of the Jammeh-controlled Daily Observer... Read more »

January 11

• Gambia: Media Group Calls for International Support for Detained Imam [press release]

  The government of The Gambia under its dictator, Yahya Jammeh continues to brutally repress and abuse voices of dissent in the country, despite consistent local and international... Read more »

October 26, 2012

• Gambia: MTWA Welcomes Decision to Drop Charges Against Two Journalists [press release]

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

October 16, 2012

• Gambia: MFWA Campaign - Take Action - Drop Charges Against Two Journalists, MFWA Demands [press release]

  The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is utterly dismayed at the sluggish attitude of the Gambian police service in handling the case of the two journalists who are facing... Read more »

September 27, 2012

• Gambia: MFWA Protests the Inexplicable Charges Preferred Against Two Journalists in the Gambia [press release]

  The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), a freedom of expression and media rights organisation based in Accra, Ghana, is concerned and dismayed about recent criminal charges... Read more »

September 18, 2012

• Gambia: Two Newspapers Ordered to Close, Authorities Give No Reason [press release]

  The offices of two privately-owned newspapers, Daily News and Standard Newspaper, were on September 14, 2012 stormed by operatives of the notorious National Intelligence Agency... Read more »

September 13, 2012

• Gambia: Detained Journalists Charged With Felony

  Baboucarr Ceesay, first vice president of the Gambian Press Union (GPU), also working with the privately-owned Daily News newspaper, and Abubacarr Saidykhan, a freelance... Read more »

August 17, 2012

• Gambia: Authorities Shut Down Radio Station for No Reason [press release]

  Officers of the dreaded National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on the night of August 14, 2012 stormed the premises of Taranga FM, a community radio station based in south-west... Read more »

July 14, 2012

• Gambia: Newspaper Reporter Released [press release]

  Sidiq Asemota, a judicial reporter of privately-owned Daily Observer newspaper, was on July 11, 2012 released from prison custody after being detained for a day at the Mile II... Read more »

July 11, 2012

• Gambia: Reporter Arrested, Remanded for Contempt

  Sidiq Asemota, a judicial reporter of privately-owned Daily Observer newspaper was on July 10, 2012 remanded at the Mile II State Central Prison by the Banjul High Court for... Read more »

June 29, 2012

• West Africa: Detained Editor Convicted of Contempt of Court

  Abdul Hamid Adiamoh, managing editor of Today, a privately-owned newspaper, was on June 28, 2012 released by the Banjul Magistrates' Court. Before his release, he had been in... Read more »