Gambiaj.com – (NAPLES, Italy) – In a significant operation yesterday, the Vasto-Arenaccia police station officers arrested two individuals, a 31-year-old Senegalese and a 26-year-old Gambian (names witheld), both with prior police records and irregular immigration statuses, for illegal possession of narcotics.
Gambiaj.com – (ASTI) – In a tragic turn of events, an 18-year-old asylum seeker, Mafugi Manneh, an asylum seeker from the Gambia, lost his life after being viciously attacked in Canelli’s Piazza Carlo Gancia on the evening of Tuesday, April 30 by Pakistani migrants.
Gambiaj.com – (BANJUL) In The Gambia, the challenge of reintegrating deported migrants from Europe is becoming increasingly urgent. Many of these individuals, seen as failures by their communities, linger in cities and towns, reluctant to return to their homes empty-handed.
Gambiaj.com – A tragic incident unfolded earlier Saturday in Germany as Lamin Touray, a 46-year-old Gambian migrant, was shot and killed by police. The authorities reported that Touray had threatened his girlfriend with a knife, prompting her to flee and alert the police.
Gambiaj.com – Wallidan, a prominent 1st division club in the Gambia Football Federation League One, is grieving the loss of one of its dynamic players, Moses Jassey. Moses tragically lost his life on Sunday, 18 March, during a perilous journey known as the “back way syndrome,” attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
Gambiaj.com – Two years after a shocking discovery at Gatwick Airport, the identity of a man found frozen in the right-hand wheel of a jet that had arrived from Banjul in The Gambia remains a mystery. The British coroner’s court of West Sussex determined on Wednesday that the man had died of hypothermia.
Gambiaj.com – The European Union’s imposition of visa sanctions on The Gambia, aimed at compelling cooperation on deportations, seems to have led to a new willingness to accept deportation flights from EU states. The Gambia is the only country against which the EU has implemented visa sanctions, which were introduced by amendments to the EU Visa Code in 2019.
Sub-Saharan migrants protested against long waiting periods and Libyan military treatment at the UNHCR office in Zarzis, holding banners demanding UN protection and urging Tunisian guards not to hand refugees to the Libyan military.
One of the protestors, a 16-year-old Gambian migrant called Ousman, reported the violent raids and inhumane treatment that the migrants had been enduring at the hands of Tunisian guards.
After they were brutally expelled from Tunisia months ago, some Gambian migrants have reached Niger and opened up to the Gambia Journal about their ordeal. They revealed having walked about 400 kilometers with bare feet as the Tunisian police chased them away from their country.
Muhammad Camara, a Gambian immigrant in Tunisia, says that the increasing number of Gambian people stuck in that country is due to Gambian smugglers operating inside Tunisia who demand money in exchange for passage by boat to Europe.
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