Gambia

Ms. Khaddijatou Baldeh, the Principal Education Officer at the Department of State for Education, and member of The Gambia Library and Information Service Association (GAMLISA), has stated that effective dissemination of information cannot be achieved if librarians and information workers are not equipped with necessary skills to transform and ensure access to, and efficient use of all available electronic information resources in the country.

Your Excellency, we are writing on behalf of the World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum, which represent 18,000 publications in 100 countries, to express our serious concern at the passing of a media law that threatens freedom of the press. According to reports, on 2 May the National Assembly approved a draft law that provides for the creation of a commission to control the media. Under the law, the commission, whose chairman will be appointed by Your Excellency, will hav...read more

Genital mutilation increases infections, researchers say. Women who have undergone female genital mutilation in Gambia have a higher prevalence of bacterial and viral infections.

The controversial Media Commission Bill whose presentation was postponed a couple of times before, is expected to be finally tabled for debate before week ending May 3rd by honourable members at the National Assembly.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on 30th April called on the speaker of the Gambian parliament, Sheriff Mustapha Dibba, to do everything he could to block passage of a new press bill that it said would seriously endanger press freedom.

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