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RSF frowns at AU
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Feb 10, 2005, 13:41
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The Paris based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have expressed disappointment over the selection of The Gambia by the African Union’s Assembly of Heads of State to host its summit in July 2006.
According to Leonard Vincent, RSF’s head of Africa desk, they wondered why the AU made such a “gift” to The Gambia without “asking for anything in return”, looking at the government’s “hostility” towards the press.
In a statement issued yesterday to the press, RSF wrote: We are astounded at the African Union's gift to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh in the form of a decision to let him host the AU summit in July 2006 despite the murder just weeks ago of a leading newspaper editor and journalist, Deyda Hydara.
The decision coincides with the first anniversary of shocking comments by President Jammeh about the attempted murder of leading attorney Ousman Sillah, in which the modus operandi was very similar to that used by the gunmen who killed Hydara. Mr Hydara was gunned down at the wheel of his car while driving two of his employees home on the night of on December 16, 2004.
Gambian journalists are still reeling from Deyda Hydara's death and now the African Union sends
them this bitter message. President Jammeh is being rewarded despite his intransigence and hostility towards journalists and, what is worse, he has been granted the favour of hosting an international summit just a few months before he plans to run for reelection as president.
We don't understand how the AU is making such a gift to Yahya Jammeh without asking for anything
in return. The lack of progress in the investigation into Hydara's death and fact that the police are no longer considering the possibility of a political motive, although everything point to this. This decision, announced in the wake of the Abuja summit of 30-31 January, is all the more astounding as it constitutes the only public response from the AU to Hydara's death.
On the eve of the Abuja summit, we had called on the African Union to ‘publicly condemn’ the murder of Hydara, who was the Reporters Without Borders correspondent in Banjul as well as the correspondent of Agence France-Presse and co-editor of The Point, a newspaper that appears three times a week.
We have also urged the AU leaders to ask President Jammeh to get the Banjul police investigators to seriously consider the possibility of a political motive.
© Copyright 2003 by Observer Company
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RSF frowns at AU
By DO
Feb 10, 2005, 13:41
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The Paris based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have expressed disappointment over the selection of The Gambia by the African Union’s Assembly of Heads of State to host its summit in July 2006.
According to Leonard Vincent, RSF’s head of Africa desk, they wondered why the AU made such a “gift” to The Gambia without “asking for anything in return”, looking at the government’s “hostility” towards the press.
In a statement issued yesterday to the press, RSF wrote: We are astounded at the African Union's gift to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh in the form of a decision to let him host the AU summit in July 2006 despite the murder just weeks ago of a leading newspaper editor and journalist, Deyda Hydara.
The decision coincides with the first anniversary of shocking comments by President Jammeh about the attempted murder of leading attorney Ousman Sillah, in which the modus operandi was very similar to that used by the gunmen who killed Hydara. Mr Hydara was gunned down at the wheel of his car while driving two of his employees home on the night of on December 16, 2004.
Gambian journalists are still reeling from Deyda Hydara's death and now the African Union sends
them this bitter message. President Jammeh is being rewarded despite his intransigence and hostility towards journalists and, what is worse, he has been granted the favour of hosting an international summit just a few months before he plans to run for reelection as president.
We don't understand how the AU is making such a gift to Yahya Jammeh without asking for anything
in return. The lack of progress in the investigation into Hydara's death and fact that the police are no longer considering the possibility of a political motive, although everything point to this. This decision, announced in the wake of the Abuja summit of 30-31 January, is all the more astounding as it constitutes the only public response from the AU to Hydara's death.
On the eve of the Abuja summit, we had called on the African Union to ‘publicly condemn’ the murder of Hydara, who was the Reporters Without Borders correspondent in Banjul as well as the correspondent of Agence France-Presse and co-editor of The Point, a newspaper that appears three times a week.
We have also urged the AU leaders to ask President Jammeh to get the Banjul police investigators to seriously consider the possibility of a political motive.
© Copyright 2003 by Observer Company
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RSF frowns at AUJammeh hail Mauritania-Gambia relationsNew Gamsu leader speaksDirector of technical services sackedJudicial Accountant pleaded guiltyDeyda’s killers were in a Mercedes – eye witnessesILO regional director ends working visitOver 50,000 Gambian children out of school
education statistics revealsImmigration hunts illegal aliensMan dies in custody
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RSF frowns at AU
By DO
Feb 10, 2005, 13:41
Email this article
Printer friendly page
The Paris based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have expressed disappointment over the selection of The Gambia by the African Union’s Assembly of Heads of State to host its summit in July 2006.
According to Leonard Vincent, RSF’s head of Africa desk, they wondered why the AU made such a “gift” to The Gambia without “asking for anything in return”, looking at the government’s “hostility” towards the press.
In a statement issued yesterday to the press, RSF wrote: We are astounded at the African Union's gift to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh in the form of a decision to let him host the AU summit in July 2006 despite the murder just weeks ago of a leading newspaper editor and journalist, Deyda Hydara.
The decision coincides with the first anniversary of shocking comments by President Jammeh about the attempted murder of leading attorney Ousman Sillah, in which the modus operandi was very similar to that used by the gunmen who killed Hydara. Mr Hydara was gunned down at the wheel of his car while driving two of his employees home on the night of on December 16, 2004.
Gambian journalists are still reeling from Deyda Hydara's death and now the African Union sends
them this bitter message. President Jammeh is being rewarded despite his intransigence and hostility towards journalists and, what is worse, he has been granted the favour of hosting an international summit just a few months before he plans to run for reelection as president.
We don't understand how the AU is making such a gift to Yahya Jammeh without asking for anything
in return. The lack of progress in the investigation into Hydara's death and fact that the police are no longer considering the possibility of a political motive, although everything point to this. This decision, announced in the wake of the Abuja summit of 30-31 January, is all the more astounding as it constitutes the only public response from the AU to Hydara's death.
On the eve of the Abuja summit, we had called on the African Union to ‘publicly condemn’ the murder of Hydara, who was the Reporters Without Borders correspondent in Banjul as well as the correspondent of Agence France-Presse and co-editor of The Point, a newspaper that appears three times a week.
We have also urged the AU leaders to ask President Jammeh to get the Banjul police investigators to seriously consider the possibility of a political motive.
© Copyright 2003 by Observer Company
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Latest Headlines
RSF frowns at AUJammeh hail Mauritania-Gambia relationsNew Gamsu leader speaksDirector of technical services sackedJudicial Accountant pleaded guiltyDeyda’s killers were in a Mercedes – eye witnessesILO regional director ends working visitOver 50,000 Gambian children out of school
education statistics revealsImmigration hunts illegal aliensMan dies in custody
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