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A media watchdog has criticised two-year jail terms handed down to six Gambian journalists for publishing a statement criticising the president.
They were found guilty of six counts of defamation and sedition.
The journalists had questioned Yahya Jammeh’s declaration the government was not responsible for the 2004 death of prominent journalist Deyda Hydara.
Ghana’s former Foreign Minister Akwasi Osei-Adjei has been charged with causing financial loss to the state.
Mr Osei-Adjei has been under investigation over rice imports from India earlier this year. In an interview with the BBC, the former minister said he had not been informed of the exact details of the charges, but he denied [...]
Le chef de l’opposition en Gambie, Halifa Sallah, également chef du service politique du journal Foroyaa, a été arrêté jeudi à Banjul, portant à neuf le nombre de journalistes interpellés en quatre jours. M. Sallah, chef de l’Alliance nationale pour la démocratie et le développement (NADD, une coalition de six partis), est l’un des opposants [...]