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.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) facilitated the voluntary return of 141 stranded Gambian migrants from Tunisia on Friday. This marks the highest chartered voluntary return of stranded migrants from the country in a single day since the establishment of the organization’s operations in the country in 2001.
Kebba Secka, popularly known as Kebbis, traveled to Italy by boat when he was seventeen years old. On December 13, 2018,
Nabil Ammar, the foreign minister of Tunisia, reports that he and Mamadou Tangara, the foreign minister of Gambia, are talking about irregular migration and diplomatic cooperation.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), over sixty migrants are thought to have perished in a shipwreck off the
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