Gambia

Gambia er det minste landet på det afrikanske fastlandet, med et areal på kun 11.300 kvadratkilometer. Det slangeformede territoriet ligger på begge sider av elven Gambia og er fullstendig omsluttet av Senegal, med unntak av den 48 kilometer lange kystlinjen. Gambia var på 1700- og 1800-tallet en kilde til konflikt mellom Frankrike og Storbritannia, som begge ønsket makt over vannveiene inn i kontinentet. Under slavehandelen var Gambia et viktig handelssentrum. Les mer >

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Africa News Update - siste saker fra Gambia

African leaders must stand up to Jammeh, say lawyers

Dakar (Senegal) - Lawyers and rights activists are calling on the African Union's human rights body to move its headquarters out of The Gambia after President Yahya Jammeh on national television threatened human rights defenders and said he would kill anyone collaborating with Les mer >

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) / 28.9.2009

Court jails six journalists

Banjul (Gambia) - Six Gambian journalists, including the editors of two independent newspapers, have been sentenced to two-year jail terms and each fined about Les mer >

allAfrica.com / 10.8.2009

AU envoy says government must release reporters

Johannesburg (South Africa) — Africa's special rapporteur on freedom of expression and access to information, Pansy Tlakula, has called on Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to release several detained journalists in line with an African Union Les mer >

Business Day (South Africa) / 25.6.2009

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