By Gambian Correspondent – President Yahya Jammeh has said that the forthcoming presidential election scheduled for 24th November 2011 will determine whether or not the people of Wuli West constituency in the Upper River Region will be provided with portable drinking water and electricity supply. Jammeh’s comments followed appeals by the community of Sutukonding and its surroundings in Wuli West constituency, for government’s intervention in providing their villages with potable water and electricity. “If it is about elections, I will not stand here in Wuli West because sixteen years from this year, you the people of Wuli West did not... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Gambian Correspondent – After more than one year of a legal tussle, former police chief Ensa Badjie, charged with robbery related offences, will soon know his fate at the high court in Banjul, which has set 29th July as the date when it will deliver judgment in the case. Badjie, already on another trial alongside two other senior military officers, under a 51-court charge including drug related offence, corruption and theft, will know his fate together with former Chief Superintendent of Prisons, Ali Ceesay. Indicted since May last year, Badjie is among other crimes accused of conspiring with... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Cameroon Correspondent – Njie Jean de Dieu and his younger brother, Leone, reportedly murdered their childhood friend and classmate, Tonye Hérve Martial, after a drinking spree. Logbessou gendarmes are grappling with a new security imperative, that of managing growing pressures from a swelling mob following the gruesome murder of Tonye Hérve Martial, 25. When news of the death of the commercial motorcyle rider broke in the PK11 neighbourhood, a furious mob stormed the residence of his assailants still at PK11 where they lived with the rest of their family. In a failed bid to get hold of the... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Cameroon Correspondent – A gang of armed alleged robbers, purportedly avenging the mob murdering of one of theirs, wreaked the fearful attack on July 11 night before police arrested some of them hours later. Security men of the Eighth Police District yesterday night arrested a group of at least 10 armed suspected robbers who reportedly stormed the Bilongue neighbourhood in the nation’s economic capital Douala, dashed into several homes killing two persons and wounding several others in what is believed to be vengeance to July 8 mob killing of one of theirs. One person later died in a... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa’s Gambian Correspondent – President Yahya Jammeh Monday began his nation-wide meet-the-people tour with appeals by communities in Njaba Kunda and Farafenni in the North Bank Region, where Jammeh and his entourage held their first meeting. The people in those areas appealed for government’s intervention in helping construct feeder roads of Kerr Pateh and Salikene to improve livelihoods in the area, among others. Our correspondent, who is on tour with the President, said the Gambian leader and entourage received a tumultuous welcome in the North Bank Region, where he held two meetings on Monday. Accompanied by cabinet ministers, heads... Continue Reading
