Gambiaj.com – (VATICAN, Italy) – In a heartfelt meeting on Tuesday afternoon, July 2, Pope Francis met with a group of migrants at Casa Santa Marta. Among them were authors Ibrahim Lo from Senegal and Ebrima Kuyateh from The Gambia, who have penned books recounting their arduous journeys in search of a new home.
In the corner of the parking lot, about 10 other recently arrived migrants chat in Wolof, a language spoken widely in Senegal and Gambia, while they wait their turn. One of them is 25-year-old Pape — who is using his nickname because of his undocumented status. He’s been in the U.S. for nine months now.
Gambiaj.com – (DAKAR, Senegal) – The Senegalese Navy intercepted a canoe originating from The Gambia off the coast of Mbour, approximately 60 kilometers from the shoreline.
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.
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