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Sub-Regional Seminar on Women’...

Sub-Regional Seminar on Women’s Rights Underway

The Point
Monday, December 10, 2007
A three-day sub-regional seminar for the adoption of an advocacy strategy on women’s rights opened yesterday at the Paradise Suites Hotel, Kololi. ...
Solinkenne School Receives a B...

Solinkenne School Receives a Boost

The Point
Monday, December 10, 2007
A philanthropist from the United Kingdom (UK), Roger Luig, recently donated 24,000 Dalasi to Solikenne Basic Cycle School. Speaking at the...
High Praise for GCCI as Trade ...

High Praise for GCCI as Trade Fair Continues

The Point
Monday, December 10, 2007
As the 2007 trade fair, organised by the Chamber of commerce and Industry, continues at Independence Stadium participants from the Kingdom of Spain...
21st March Coup Suspect Appear...

21st March Coup Suspect Appear in Court

The Point
Monday, December 10, 2007
Hamadi Sowe, the only civilian charged with concealment of treason in the aftermath of the 21st March 2006 abortive coup yesterday appeared at the...
State Witness Cross-examined i...

State Witness Cross-examined in Alleged MFDC Rebels’ Trial

The Point
Monday, December 10, 2007
The trial of the alleged MFDC rebels from the southern Senegalese region of Casamance continued on Wednesday, 5th December before Magistrate B.Y....
Lumoo is a Livelihood for a lo...

Lumoo is a Livelihood for a lot of people

The Point
Monday, December 10, 2007
- Lumoo Committee Member The time-honoured market day observed weekly in rural Gambia, where it is popularly known as Lumoo, has assumed...
NIGER: Rape and beatings of wo...

NIGER: Rape and beatings of women “normal” in Niger

IRIN
Monday, December 10, 2007
The news that 70 percent of women in parts of Niger find it normal that their husbands, fathers and brothers regularly beat, rape and humiliate them...
MAURITANIA: The real beginning...

MAURITANIA: The real beginning of the end of slavery?

IRIN
Monday, December 10, 2007
Four months after the passing of a law criminalising slavery in Mauritania, anti-slavery activists hope newly-announced funding for the...
UGANDA: Medical staff bore the...

UGANDA: Medical staff bore the brunt of "sly" new Ebola virus

IRIN
Monday, December 10, 2007
As Uganda's western district of Bundibugyo grapples with the consequences of an outbreak of the Ebola virus, which has killed 22 people in three...
Fatou Jaw’s case back to Kanif...

Fatou Jaw’s case back to Kanifing

Sunday, December 9, 2007
Justice MM Yamoa has transferred the sedition trial involving Fatou Jaw Manneh, a Gambian journalist based in the United States, back to the...
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