The Daily Observer (Banjul) Daily Observer 3 August 2011 editorial The Holy Month of Ramadan is not only meant for fasting and abstinence. It is also a month when good and God-fearing Muslims remember the poor and needy. It is a time when Muslims extend a helping hand to those in need, a time for [...]
Sanyang happy to be a Sounders player Gambian youngster Amadou Sanyang heard all about the Sounders before he was signed to the club last week and expressed his happiness to be a Sounders player. On Monday, Baresi celebrated his 20th birthday. He got an early gift from the Sounders FC when the club announced they [...]
Three Gambian journalists are among seven people facing the death penalty for making and distributing t-shirts that called for an end to the dictatorship exercised by the country’s president Yahya Jammeh, who has been in power for 17 years. The journalists are Ndey Tapha Sosseh, now in exile in Mali, Mathew K. Jallow and Famara [...]
Press Release After three months of sustained consultations and meetings, we the undersigned Gambian human and civil rights organizations have agreed to form a coalition, hence forth known as Civil Society Associations Gambia (CSAG). The decision to form a coalition is driven by an intense desire to join our individual efforts in order to maximize [...]
The Daily Observer (Banjul) Baboucarr Camara 3 August 2011 It was only two weeks ago that Colorado Rapids leading scorer Conor Casey tore an Achilles tendon. It was a season-ending injury, but his replacement, Sanna Nyassi, has been doing pretty well ever since. “It’s crazy. We lost our most prolific striker who time and time [...]
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Sports : WRC 214: tough Cote d’Ivoire seeding for Gambia By Sulayman Bah on 01-08-11 (51 reads) News by the same author Paul Put has an almighty homework to do if his Scorpion side has any feeling of qualifying, after draws held in Rio de Janeiro Southeast Brazil, pitted Gambia with one of Africa’s big-hitters Cote d’Ivoire, 1986 [...]
Sounders signs Gambian youngster Sanyang Sanna Nyassi’s former MLS side Seattle Sounders has announced the signing of Gambian defender who also doubles as a midfielder and former Toronto FC player Amadou Sanyang alias Baresi. Signed at the age of 17 by Toronto FC, Baresi made his debut on his 18th birthday, August 1, 2009, playing [...]
By Mathew K Jallow As this year’s “meet the voters tour” comes to an end where it all began two weeks ago, one of Yahya Jammeh’s messages around the country has become not only a strikingly familiar refrain, but also the chorus of a sickening melodrama that is of his own making. For many years [...]
Here’s the news from the club: Seattle Sounders FC has signed Gambian midfielder Amadou Sanyang, the team announced today. Signed at age 17 by Toronto FC, Sanyang made his debut on his 18th birthday, August 1, 2009, playing 14 minutes as a reserve versus New England. His first start came two weeks later in midfield [...]
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Gryphon Minerals (GRY) Broker Calls Credit Suisse – BUY Deutsche – BUY RBC – BUY RBS Morgans – BUY Argonaut – BUY Eagle Research – BUY Alpha Broking – BUY Chart: Share price over the year to 04/08/2011 versus ASX200 (XJO) Gryphon Minerals (GRY), a West African focussed Gold exploration company with projects [...]
Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]