The Gambian founder and managing director of Jollof News Online, Yusupha Cham, who lives in exile in Birmingham, UK, told IPI on Wednesday that he has received three emailed death threats since the beginning of the year. Copies of the emails were forwarded to the IPI Secretariat in Vienna. The first email, from a Hotmail […]

Pa Kemo Jarju has worked at now-defunct newspaper The Independent, the Daily Observer, allgambian.net and other news outlets in The Gambia. As a result of his critical reporting, Jarju was forced to leave The Gambia and is now living in exile. The Gambia has one of the worst press freedom environments in Africa and journalists […]

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the brutal murder of Deyda Hydara, editor and co-founder of the Point daily newspaper in Gambia. Hydara was fatally shot by unknown attackers on 16 December 2004. The murderers remain at large. Disturbingly, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh seems uninterested in pursuing the murderers. In June this year, he told reporters that […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) warmly welcomes news of the release of six Gambian journalists sentenced to a two-year prison term in early August on charges of seditious publication and criminal defamation. News of a presidential pardon was announced on state-run GRTS television on Thursday evening, local sources told IPI.  A statement issued by President […]