The Daily IIJ

The Associate Director of the International Refugee Rights Initiative, Olivia Bueno has expressed fears that violence may erupt in Sudan in the build up to the 2011 Referendum that will determine the secession of South Sudan from the North.

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The Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), Ousman Hummaida, has said that the recent elections were included in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) as a mechanism to addressing key causes of conflict in Sudan.

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Part 5: Burning Issues On the Streets of Accra The city of Accra has always been very hot, temperatures of which can only equaled that of the Upper River Region of The Gambia especially the town of Basse. You can feel the warmth even deep into the night, unlike in most part of The Gambia [...]

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Part 4: Barca won but looses, so did my friend DK Senghbeh On Wednesday 28th April 2010, we were hosted for a Dinner at Tante Marie Restaurant by the German Ambassador in Accra, an event that was scheduled to take place on 19th April. However, the grounding of airplanes across Europe which stranded the German [...]

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Anna Politkovskaya and Dele Giwa As I ponder over the meaning of the word “freedom” as it refers to the media, and indeed, its relevance to journalists, two individuals immediately prop up in my mind.

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Says “I cannot get water to rinse my face” The leader of the main opposition party  in The Gambia, United Democracy Party (UDP), lawyer Ousainou Darboe has renewed his usual missiles attack on the central government and local government for what he describe as priorities is not set in the development program as Farafenni town [...]

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As the sector is allocated D140.40 million “Act now” before it’s too late The call of President Yahya AJJ Jammeh President of the Republic of The Gambia for The Gambian people to “Return to the Land” is not new, since records shows it was being made by politicians and others during the first Republic and [...]

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The formulation of the Network of Disaster Management Journalists (NDMJ), according to its top brass is to be part of efforts to provide for an integrated and coordinated disaster management approach to enhance prevention, preparedness respond and mitigation of disaster using its mandate to sentization Gambians. This was revealed by the President of the network, [...]

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Alberto Agra hitched his star to the wagon of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who would reward him with the twin posts of solicitor general and justice secretary. After he threw out the case against two leaders of the Ampatuan clan for their alleged roles in the Maguindanao massacre, the government’s top barrister is now the [...]

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The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has granted operating licences to four new independent daily newspapers and one weekly unlocking the state stranglehold on the media that has been experienced in the last decade. The announcement has brought back the Daily News shut down by the government in 2004. Addressing journalists the ZMC chairperson Godfrey Majonga [...]

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