Dangerous speech alert: ‘Destroy, maim and dismantle’ ‘non-Gambian voters’
The statement made by Kambi— a former chairman of the National Youth Council (NYC)— on his Facebook page was flagged by Malagen media monitoring team as a dangerous speech.
Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism relaunches as Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development
Saikou Jammeh2022-02-11T13:46:10+00:00By CJID The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development [CJID], the parent organisation of Dubawa Ghana, has officially launched in Abuja, Nigeria. The Centre will help the West African news media community fulfil “a mission to improve governance, promote a community of informed citizenry, and entrench democratic accountability,” CJID Chief Executive Officer, Dapo Olorunyomi said at the launch dinner on Tuesday the 8th of February 2022. This mission, he added, has found expression in many innovative interventions, including Dubawa which is a transnational fact-checking product in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia. CEO of CJID, Dapo Olorunyomi The CJID, formerly known as the Premium Times...
Gambians renew President Barrow’s mandate ‘free and fair polls’, but opposition do not accept defeat
Saikou Jammeh2024-01-02T01:53:24+00:00The Independent Electoral Commission has declared incumbent Adama Barrow as winner of the presidential elections held over the weekend. But three of the five opposition contenders, including his main rival Ousainou Darboe, had rejected the results in polls that have been judged as free, fair, and transparent. “I am going to win with the biggest landslide in history,” Barrow told journalists after casting his vote Saturday morning, before going on to win 457,519 votes, representing 53 percent of votes cast. His nearest rival Ousainou Darboe scored 238,253 votes, representing 27.7 percent of the votes cast. This is the second biggest presidential election...
Who will win the race to State House
Saikou Jammeh2024-01-02T01:53:10+00:00On paper, President Adama Barrow is the candidate to beat. He has consistently led in the polls. He enjoys the support of a grand coalition; one bigger than the group that backed him to victory five years ago, at least in terms of the number of political entities. If each of the coalition partners pulled their weight, Barrow will not be within sight of his opponents. However, what will happen on the ground could be different. The eleventh-hour resurgence of PDOIS’ Halifa Sallah and GDC’s Mama Kandeh as well the incursion of newbie Essa Faal into what is supposed to be...
Misinformation alert: the results of presidential elections that gave Adama Barrow a lead has not been rejected by any court!!!
Saikou Jammeh2022-11-16T16:16:39+00:00A video of the European Union Election Observer Mission ’chief election observer is being shared on WhatsApp by people, attributing claims to him that the results of the 2021 presidential election which gave Adama Barrow a lead has been rejected by a court. It did not specify which courts have heard the case. The video of Chief Observer Norbert Neuser was edited to a portion where he said: “The IEC has been held in high esteem by stakeholders since the 2016 presidential election. This public standing was, however, diminished AFTER COURT FINDINGS THAT THE IEC HAD ACTED UNLAWFULLY. The...
A Foreign-owned Fishmeal Factory Causes a Stink in Senegal
Saikou Jammeh2024-01-02T01:52:09+00:00Standing beside the empty guest house she manages, Abie Sanyang looks with worry across the beach. The source of her concern is less than 100m away on the foreshore; a fishmeal factory – its silos looming over a concrete wall separating it from cheerfully decorated palm-thatched beach bars and settlements. The fishing village Abene, in the rural Casamance region of southern Senegal, has long been a popular tourist destination. But when the plant, Société des Produits Halieutiques (SPH SARL), began operating in April 2018, the noxious fumes created in the process of turning pelagic fish into powder and oil drove visitors away. “Our guests were struggling to breath...
Dangerous Speech Alert: ‘This Donkey’
Saikou Jammeh2024-01-02T01:51:55+00:00The former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh, now exiled in Equatorial Guinea since his election defeat in 2016 has recently addressed a meeting via internet call conducted at a Kombo South settlement in Berending where he had referred to his successor Adama Barrow as a donkey, a comment flagged by Malagen media monitoring as dangerous speech. As The Gambia goes to polls to elect a president on December 4, Jammeh’s breakaway faction of the officially recognised Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) has joined the Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC), led by Mama Kandeh- his former National Assembly Member. He has since been...
Hate speech alert: Essa Faal is Ahmadiyya, Serahules should deny him vote
Saikou Jammeh2024-01-02T01:51:41+00:00The comments made by the founder of the Gambia Action Party (GAP) Musa Yali Batchilly towards the independent candidate Essa Mbye Faal have been flagged as hate speech by the Malagen media monitoring desk. Speaking at an NPP political rally, he labeled Faal as Ahmadis, declared him an enemy of Prophet Muhammed and called on his fellow Serahule tribes’ people to deny him their vote. Context Musa Yali Batchilly is the founder of one of the many new political parties, the Gambia Action Party (GAP). He holds the title of party leader and Secretary General. However, he has been suspended from the party earlier...
Fact check: Ousainou Darboe threatens to deport Senegalese if elected into office
Saikou Jammeh2021-11-29T20:48:56+00:00Claim: Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the United Democratic Party threatens to deport Senegalese if he is elected president Source: Senego (Senegalese medium) Verdict: Unverifiable claim, UDP denied such statements Senegalese online paper, Senego, has published an article in French on the November 13, 2021 title ‘Gambia: Candidate Ousseynou Dabo threatens to extricate Senegalese if elected President.’ The person who authored the report on Senego is Cheikh Tidiane Kandé. The article was reproduced by other online outlets, including Buzz Senegal and News.in-24 sites. Claim Gambians are heading to polls to elect a president on December 4. Campaigns are on high gear as candidates tour the...
Op-Ed: A Competition of Ideas
Saikou Jammeh2021-11-30T21:41:20+00:00By R. Carl Paschall, U.S. Ambassador to The Gambia For the first time in more than a generation, Gambians are presented with an intimidation-free election, having embraced the democratic freedoms ushered in after they courageously cast their marbles in December 2016 to demand peacefully at the ballot box a break with the past. Even a casual observer can’t miss the energy and excitement – and, yes, tension – with a crowded political field of candidates vying to make their case to the voters of why theirs are the best ideas to move The Gambia forward in rule of law-based democratic governance, respecting citizen’s fundamental...