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<title>Gamtel blocks Gambian online newspaper over bankruptcy story</title>
<link>http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/159173/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Gamtel blocks Gambian online newspaper over bankruptcy story</title>
<link>http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/159172/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Gamtel blocks Gambian online newspaper over bankruptcy story</title>
<link>http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/159171/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>BACKSLIDERS - Press Freedom Dishonour Roll</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78164</link>
<description>Three African countries - with Ethiopia leading the &quot;dishonour roll&quot; - 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.</description>
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<title>Scientist Dismisses Gambian 'AIDS Cure' Evidence</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78117</link>
<description>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: &quot;There is no known cure for AIDS. Under no circumstance may results conducted in my laboratory be proof of an alleged cure for HIV.&quot;</description>
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<title>Gambia accused of harassing journalists</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73573</link>
<description>President Yahya Jammeh’s &quot;police state&quot; 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.</description>
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<title>Women's rights: a tale of two African parliaments</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73002</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>African rights body urged to pull out of Gambia</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/72532</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>One Village at a Time</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/72515</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Gambia: MDGs 'depend' on IT</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/132268/1/</link>
<description>A UNDP economic adviser - based in Gambia - says that information technology is central to the success of the Millennium Development Goals.</description>
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<title>Bid to involve African Union over Gambian detentions</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71505</link>
<description>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</description>
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<title>Participation of women in the e-Government system</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/129770/1/</link>
<description>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”.</description>
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<title>The global networked readiness in education survey</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/114653/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>President signs bills into law that could weigh down heavily on freedom of expression</title>
<link>http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/107350/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>West African journalists protest murder of Gambian colleague</title>
<link>http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/101001/1/</link>
<description>Journalists in Gambia, Senegal and Mali collectively mourned the death of their colleague Deyda Hydara,  co-founder and owner of  the tri-weekly  newspaper &amp;#8220;The Point&amp;#8221; 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.</description>
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