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Another radio station forcibly shut down by Gambian govt
Saturday, 15 January 2011 00:24
RSF - State security agents in Gambia Thursday ransacked Teranga FM, a community radio station located outside the capital, and ordered its closure, Reporters Without Borders has learned from various sources.“We condemn such brutal methods and urge the government to explain this incident at once,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We also call for the station to be reopened. Independent media are rare in a country that is so hostile to press freedom. The effect of such measures is to reduce the public’s access to any other news but reports about the daily activities of the president and his government.”
“I believe the closure is linked with the press reviews of the independent press that the radio station is doing everyday in local languages, with which the authorities are not happy,” a Gambian journalist told Reporters Without Borders. “The independent press is covering the opposition’s daily activities, while state media, both the radio and the TV, only cover government activities.”
Launched in 2009, Teranga FM is based in Sinju Alajie, about 20 km west of Banjul, the capital. It is funded by donations from the local population and advertising.
Citizen Radio FM, a station that was closed during the general elections in 2002, has never reopened.
Reporters Without Borders issued a release last month, on the sixth anniversary of journalist Deyda Hydara’s still unpunished murder, condemning the press freedom situation in Gambia and urging the government to let the media breathe.
Gambia was ranked 125th out of 178 countries in the 2010 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index. A demented and violent dictator who openly threatens human rights activists and journalists, President Yahya Jammeh has for years been on the Reporters Without Borders list of “Predators of Press Freedom”.
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I find it hard to believe a guine Gambian can make such statement.
Do you really mean there is no gambian who can do what Jammeh has done, or even more, for the country? Not even you or your father,mother, sister, and endless relatives?
THis is exactly what your stement suggests. And if you really mean it, it is really a big disappointment.
Support if you are supporting, you have the right; but to present someone above what they are is undone. Yahya may have build schools, but he is not being forced to rule Gambia, is he? WHy would he have to resort to violence to force Gambians to like him?
I would like to get your view on this please.
Rise up Gambians and take back your country!!!!
It is time. Enough is enough!!!!!!!!! !
I told you to shut your f***king mouth and prepare your asylum application.You ignorant bastard.We will take our country back,rest assured.
Now you talking about your self innit? Charity begins at home. Thats how you treat and talk to your family. I am sure you are not godly or religious either, since one who pray be muslim or christian etc, will ever have such dirty minds like you. Nor any one will like to patrner your kind in any relationship. No wonder you are lonely and find a partnership with your KING.
Instead of being prepared like other countries, we are obsessed with Festivals and Kingship nonsense
so if anyone can`t see that,hear that,feel that then you are not living.
King Jammeh the visionary leader and he is GOING TO BE CROWN SOON AS THE WORLDS BEST KING OF KINGS AS HIS DETERMINATION MADE HIM A KING.So Gambians get ready for the CROWNING and the Royal family of UK must bow to the real King Jammeh I.That is real fact.
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