Full Coverage: Gambia

27.03.2008 For the past two weeks, Gambians have been unable to access the Freedom Newspaper, an online Gambia newspaper based in United States of America, which has been very critical of the administration of President Yahya Jammeh.

27.03.2008 For the past two weeks, Gambians have been unable to access the Freedom Newspaper, an online Gambia newspaper based in United States of America, which has been very critical of the administration of President Yahya Jammeh.

27.03.2008 For the past two weeks, Gambians have been unable to access the Freedom Newspaper, an online Gambia newspaper based in United States of America, which has been very critical of the administration of President Yahya Jammeh.

02.05.2007 Three African countries - with Ethiopia leading the "dishonour roll" - are among those where press freedom has deteriorated the most over the last five years, according to a new analysis by an international media organisation.

27.04.2007 A Senegalese scientist has disputed test results used by President Yayha Jammeh to support claims that the Gambian leader had found a cure for AIDS: "There is no known cure for AIDS. Under no circumstance may results conducted in my laboratory be proof of an alleged cure for HIV."

20.07.2006 President Yahya Jammeh’s "police state" is stepping up the pace of arrests and harassment of journalists in the run-up to The Gambian elections scheduled for September, according to an international media watchdog.

21.06.2006 Ahead of the July African Union Summit on 25 June in Banjul, Faith Cheruiyot looks at contrasting experiences from two largely Islamic west African countries that reveal the importance of the AU Protocol on Women’s Rights in Africa.

01.06.2006 The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights should consider moving out of The Gambia because of threats to free expression and to civil and political liberties, an international media watchdog said today.

01.06.2006 After traveling to the Gambian village of Kossomer on vacation in 2003, Judy Browne teamed up with Denzil Nurse, a community development practitioner, to help create self-sufficiency within the village. Today, the residents of Kossomer have clean drinking water, a new library roof, and a burgeoning fishing industry.

05.05.2006 A UNDP economic adviser - based in Gambia - says that information technology is central to the success of the Millennium Development Goals.

12.04.2006 The African Union has been urged to send a mediator to Banjul to assess whether the July AU summit there should be postponed because of the Gambian government's illegal detention of two newspaper executives.
* CPJ calls on Pakistani and US authorities to reveal all information about missing journalist

24.03.2006 In the ICT arena women they still remain inside that outer circle of ICT users where a male-dominated society assigns specific limits beyond which women are not able to tread. Women, like other subordinate groups in the society are thought to be “muted”.

05.07.2005 The Global Networked Readiness in Education survey seeks to aid school leaders and policymakers by helping them to examine the role and effects of integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) into formal learning.

10.03.2005 On 28 December 2004, without informing The Gambia's citizens, President Yahya Jammeh signed into law two bills whose application will severely restrict freedom of expression and pose a danger to the practice of journalism in the country.

07.01.2005 Journalists in Gambia, Senegal and Mali collectively mourned the death of their colleague Deyda Hydara, co-founder and owner of the tri-weekly newspaper “The Point” in Gambia. Hydara was murdered in the capital of Banjul on the evening of 16 December. In a display of solidarity, over three hundred journalists marched through the streets of Banjul on 22 December to protest the murder and push for an immediate investigation into the case.

12.05.2004 Sex tourism from Britain and Northern Europe and "sugar daddy" relationships with Gambian adults have resulted in an increase in sexual abuse and exploitation of children in the West African country, a joint report from UNICEF and the Gambian government reveals.

22.01.2004

Measles initiative

This photo essay tells the story of a battle against one of Africa's main killers of young children--measles--in the Gambia, where the Red Cross undertook a national vaccination campaign as part of a broad-based "Measles Initiative." For less than a dollar over a million children could be innoculated, but 450,000 still die each year. The Initiative is putting a dent in those numbers.

26.03.2003 A British couple has donated IT materials and other valuable goods that will help the Sanyang Daycare centre in Gambia's Banjul to introduce information technology in the school and take better care of its pupils.

27.02.2003 Women in the Ndrameh Jooka area in Gambia are transforming their lives through basic education reinforced with learning skills. Women's earnings are enough for the men folk to allow their wives to participate in the programme.

11.02.2003 Teachers in Gambia's senior secondary schools recently attended a workshop to learn not only how to use software but also when it is effective to use ICT for teaching and learning and when it is not.