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  By Sheriff Saidykhan The China-Gambia Alumni Student Association (CGASA) has over the weekend been officially launched at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Conference hall in Bijilo.  The launching brought together dignitaries, student's and people from different walks of life.  Speaking at the launching ceremony, the Minister for Higher Education Reasearch Science and Technology Professor Pierre Gomez applauded the initiative, saying it will strengthen the already enduring bilateral ties between the Republic of the Gambia and the People's Republic of China.  Seedy Njie, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly said over the past decades, the two countries have a long standing brotherly relation.  He said the association will further concretise the existing bilaties ties between Banjul and Beijing.  Lamin Ceesay, the President of the association went down memory lane to catalogued the historical background of the association.  “The Asssociation is legally reg...

  Team Outpost The Ministry of Health in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO) have warned the general public against the dangers of Tobacco and electronic cigarettes in the country.  It is against this backdrop, the public health officers in collaboration with National Environment Agency (NEA) have recently confiscated e-cigarettes and other illicit tobacco in accordance with the Tobacco Control ACT. Speaking at the presser held at the Central medical store in Kotu on Friday 2nd February 2024, Momodou Gassama from the World Health Organisation (WHO) said smoking is a killer product, adding that active or passive smokers all die due to smoking. He said 13 per cent of children are smokers. “Tobacco is a killer and nearly 8 million people die because of Tobacco use. 7 million actively smoke directly die. 1.2 million people die extra  because of passive smoking.  Whether you smoke actively or passively, smoking kills. 8.2 million people die every year as ...

      The Outpost Team The newly-elected executives of the Association of Health Journalists, (AoHJ) recently, paid a courtesy call to the Officials of the National Nutrition Agency, (NaNa) headed by the executive Director, Malang N. Fofana, to formally introduce themselves and as well as to forward their activity plans for the year 2024 - 2025. The executives were Sally Jarjue the President, Secretary General Ousman A. Marong, Assistance Secretary General Sheriff Saidykhan and Treasurer Bakary Manneh. Addressing the executives, the Executive Director, of NaNA, Malang N. Fofana expressed gratitude for receiving the AoHJ executives.  He assured the executives of his agency's support in all AoHJ's activities adding that there will be more capacity-building trainings for AoHJ members. “Your request for the capacity building training is in line with policies and strategies. We will work on that together. What we need is for you to formalize things and back them with a dr...

    By Sheriff Saidykhan The embattled former minister of Interior and Inspector General of Police, Ousman Sonko told the Court in Switzerland that the defunct Independent Newspaper was closed by a Court order and that was why the police were presence at the premises for two years.  Sonko was pushed to a corner by one of the lawyers of a private plaintiff Madi Ceesay. In a cross examination, he (Sonko) said in defense of good human right climate during Jammeh’s regime indicated that it was in 2014 that their government established the National Human Right Commission, but due to lack of funds it was not functional. as the National Human Right Commission was as an act of parliament in 2017). In the ongoing trial of the former Minister and IGP, Ousman Sonko, who since 2017 was in jail for crimes against humanity the allegations ranges from multiple rapes, force imprisonment and torture.  Narrating his ordeals Madi Ceesay the tenth private plaintiff in the Sonko trial to...

             |Legal Luminary Shares Views On South Africa’s Legal Case Against Israel At ICJ|     By Almamy Fanding Taal At the same Forum in 2019 the Gambia stood up for justice for the Rohingya People. The Republic of The Gambia on 11 November 2019  instituted proceedings against the Republic of the Union of Myanmar before the International Court of Justice-ICJ, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, alleging violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide through “acts adopted, taken and condoned by the Government of Myanmar against members of the Rohingya group”. Africa the site of countless genocides, slavery and the most virulent forms of  imperialism have not only the moral authority but the abiding responsibility to demand justice for dispossessed people anywhere from the world court. Therefore, South African is doing the right bringing the State of Israel to the world cour...

             By Sheriff Saidykhan Musa Saidykhan, onetime journalist at the defunct Independent newspaper has yesterday told the Federal Criminal Court in Switzerland about the severe torture meted out on him at the former (NIA). Musa informed the court that he was arrested on the 27 March 2006 by a group of army including some police officers at his home in Faji Kunda, and later transported to the PIU in Kanifing before taken to the NIA at night. He said he was put in a small cell together with some of the abortive 2006 coup plotters. Musa told the court that when he was taken to the NIA, said he was severely beaten several times and was forced to striped naked, and they applied electrical shocks all over his body including his private part.  Musa said due to those severe beatens he has lost his right arm and sights. He said during the second beaten his right arm was completely broken down twice.  He told the court that him and Madi were tak...

By Team Outpost Fatou Camara, one of the victims of April 14th peaceful protest has told the Federal Criminal Court in Switzerland about the gruesome torture meted out on her at the NIA. In her testimonies on Wednesday, during the eight sittings of the on going trial of Ousman Sonko, former Interior Minister for his alleged role in the human rights violations committed under the former regime of Yahya Jameh.  In her testimony, Fatou Camara told the court that she was assaulted by some PIU with a nasty slap on her face during the protest at Westfield.  “I was bundled into an open truck at the PIU with some other senior police officers, including Yankuba Sonko, then the Inspector General of Police and Yankuba Colley, former KMC Mayor together with the former Interior minister Ousman Sonko,” she told the court. Under the instructions of Ousman Sonko, Fatou told the court that they were moved from the PIU  to the Mile2 Prison. Fatou said she was picked with others from their ...