GPU Begins Training of 20 Journalists on Physical and Digital Safety

#TheGambia 🇬🇲 As part of their election preparations, the Gambia Press Union, with backing from IFEX, is arming journalists with vital safety skills to impactfully confront threats and curb impunity.

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

The emergence of protective natural immunity to Streptococcus pyogenes in The Gambia: a focus on candidate vaccine antigens/ AJ Keeley

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#TheGambia #Gambia #globalhealth #vaccines #streptococcus

#barra #banjul #thegambia #yesterday

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Gambian journalist cuffed outside court and charged - IFEX Gambian journalist Momodou Justice Darboe was accused of assault after police allegedly attacked him for photographing suspects outside the courtroom.

#TheGambia 🇬🇲 The Gambia Press Union highlights growing risk for journalists documenting public proceedings, after police detained and charged Momodou Justice Darboe outside court.

Tuberculosis remains a major public health challenge in #TheGambia.

A new study published in Nature Scientific Reports reveals the diversity of #TB strains circulating in the country and emerging drug-resistance mutations.

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#WorldTBDay #EndTB

The best hotel in Gambia @makasutu cultural forests #TheGambia with the best resting island as you can see a canoe 🛶 which will carry you to the island 🏝️

Makasuta cultural forest #thegambia come to Gambia and have the best holiday 👇👇👇

The Gambia: Journalist arrested and charged with common assault / IFJ The editor of Jollof News Online, Momodou Justice Darboe, was arrested by the police at the Banjul Magistrates Court on 11 March for photographing two defendants as they left the courtroom. He was lat...

#TheGambia: Journalist Momodou Justice Darboe was arrested by the police for photographing two defendants as they left the courtroom. We condemn this act of intimidation against a journalist for simply doing their job.

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The Gambia has landed: birdbrainer.app ! "Common Birds of The Gambia (6)" is now playable! 🙌 Learn birds. Love nature #birdbrainerapp #birdbrainer | #birdsoftheworld #birds 🇬🇲 #thegambia #gmb

FGM in Gambia: A Test of Human Rights for Girls – Women's eNews It is very likely that if the this law is repealed, other existing laws protecting women and girls’ rights will be threatened.

An op-ed written by Dr. Isatou Touray of
Gamcotrap About FGM in #TheGambia: A Test of Human Rights for Girls womensenews.org/2026/02/fgm-... via Women's eNews
This is a must-read for anyone who cares about gender justice, public health, and the future of girls’ rights. 👇

An African Finfoot and a Twenty-One-Year-Old Promise The African Finfoot and a Twenty-One-Year-Old Promise. Two continents, two moments, one ethical lesson in birding. A new reflection on Bird Observer.

The African Finfoot and a Twenty-One-Year-Old Promise.
Two continents, two moments, one ethical lesson in birding.
A new reflection on Bird Observer.

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#birdwatching #birds #birdingtrip #birding #TheGambia #birdobserver

Watching the last day of #TheGambia presentings its case (January 27, 2026): "There is no quantitative requirement imposed on the actus reus. The 10.000 deaths at least, caused by the Tatmadaw were each a human tragedy, and they were each a genocidal act within the meaning of Art. 2a." #Rohingya

🎓𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗦 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗮

For the #SORMAS rollout in #TheGambia, a two-phase training program was designed:

1. Training of Trainers for supervisory levels, that took place in January'26
2. Step-down trainings for users at lower levels

Learn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY3F...

#128 in my attempt to #ReadTheWorld #TheGambia
A truly beautiful read, leaving me wanting more.

Same prompt. Four AIs. One country.
Who did it best?

#AIArt #AIPortrait #GenerativeAI
#ChatGPT #Gemini #Grok #MetaAI
#Gambia #Gambia🇬🇲 #TheGambia
#GambianMen

Bearded Barbet on a bare branch

When I first caught sight of this Bearded Barbet I thought it was a Collared Aracari, with that breast color pattern. But not in West Africa! #birding #TheGambia

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#BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #finches, so I'll contribute this Lavender Waxbill from our recent West Africe #birding adventure. #TheGambia Cheers!

Still catching up with #ICJ hearing #TheGambia vs #Myanmar - on 20 January, 9 judges began to pose questions to the two parties. 1st Q: on the methodology of how #evidence was collected from anonymous witnesses by third parties. 2nd Q (to Myanmar): how many villages destroyed by ARSA/Tatmadaw/Gov.

graph: The Gambia's "indicators of genocidal intent" approach with 7 indicators, two of which concerning "tolerance of hate speech" and "hate speech"

graph: The court's "inference from a pattern of conduct" approach

Against #TheGambia s approach, which "has no basis in the court's case law", Stefan Talmon ( #Myanmar ) positions the court's "inference from a pattern of conduct approach." Question is: Could #hatespeech be relevant to establish a pattern of conduct? #Myanmar: no. #hatespeech has no role to play.

After disputing that the material #TheGambia has provided carries any evidential weight, #Myanmar focused on #ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army), an Islamist group active in the camps in #Bangladesh, but - at least acc. to #Myanmar - responsible for many of the killings in #Myanmar, too.

I continue my thread after a 1-week break. All videos of the case #TheGambia vs #Myanmar are available at the #ICJ website. I have summarized the 1st week of the case by highlighting a crucial formal aspect when interpreting the #Genocide Convention: what counts as #evidence and what does not?

The Gambia re-opens long-delayed Deyda Hydara murder trial - IFEX After two decades of silence and stalled investigations, the trial of Sanna Manjang confronts the Gambian state with its long failure to account for the murder of journalist Deyda Hydara.

#TheGambia 🇬🇲 As the long-awaited trial opens in Banjul, @rsf.org urges the courts to break the culture of impunity and deliver justice for murdered journalist Deyda Hydara.

Round 1 of #TheGambia v #Myanmar saw a sustained attack by Myanmar on the credibility of UN fact-finding reports. The situation underscores the potential value in the ICJ hearing directly from the fact-finders, an issue I discussed on @ejiltalk.bsky.social in 2019. www.ejiltalk.org/the-challeng...

#Myanmar is criticising that so many #IIMM witness statements were provided anonymously. "How can one know if the statements are not contradictory?" asks the counsel. I understand the point and think #TheGambia should clarify why it was necessary to protect anonymity in these cases.

So, while #TheGambia has so far concentrated almost exclusively on aspects of content of the case, #Myanmar has so far almost exclusively concentrated on form, particularly what constitutes accepted #evidence in #internationallaw.

chart: The Gambia's 'indicators of genocidal intent' approach

Highly interesting argument presented by Stefan Talmon (whom I remember from Uni Tuebingen - we studied with the same international legal scholar, Prof. Graf von Vitzthum. He criticizes that #TheGambia s #indicators of genocidal intent (presented as inductive) amount to consequential #evidence

"The #IIMM reports do not deal with events on the ground in 2016-17" Staker doubts the witness statements by #IIMM (only 42 provided to #TheGambia after 7 years of work) out of which only 12 were put into the case). The Gambia "simply has no case"; aka: discrediting the fact-finding reports.

Christopher Staker, representing #Myanmar in fronto of the #ICJ begins his statement with emphasizing that the only task of the court is to establish whether the Genocide convention has been violated. He then disputes that what #TheGambia presented earlier, were facts. He begins explaining that ...

screenshot of PPT provided by the delegation of The Gambia, quoting external expert Prof. Michael Newton (2020). "...The only plausible conclusion from the available evidence is that the 'clearance opertions' were conceived, coordinated, and conducted with the intention of destroying the Rohingya population on the basis of their ethnic and religious identity."

External expert report of Prof. Michael Newton being cited by #TheGambia "The only plausible conclusion from the available evidence is that the 'clearance opertions' were conceived, coordinated, and conducted with the intention of destroying the Rohingya." No counter-expertise by #Myanmar provided.