Environmental news and activism
The fishing trawler of the Golden Lead Import and Export Company operating a Fish meal processing plant in Gunjur has been caught illegally fishing in the Gambian waters, according The Gambia National Army. GOLDEN...
By Abdoulie John Police prosecutors on Wednesday have pressed charges against Gunjur’s environmental activist Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh in what many have described as another episode of the Golden Lead saga. He is facing...
Alanson Aquante shrugged as he carefully pinched and turned fish on a large cement grill. “Before we had plenty of fish here and very cheap,” he said, barely visible through the smog that filled...
By the afternoon of 22 March 2018, a crowd had gathered in the Gambian fishing village of Gunjur. Police had arrived by truck. Rumours were circulating that arrests would be made. After months of frustration and anger, Golden...
Due to concerns over the pollution they generate and the impact they have on local forage fish stocks and the fishermen who traditionally rely on them, in the last few weeks, fisheries representatives and...
Edrissa Sackh stands on Gunjur beach, a small frown developing on his face as he mends his net. The remote fishing town of 25,000 people overlooks the North Atlantic Ocean, where Sackh, 31, has...
The family of a leading environmentalist Omar A.J. Saho, was yesterday allegedly intimidated by members of the Gambia Police Force posted at Gunjur Police Station. His house was ransacked as they searched his compound without...
Building The New Gambia With Madi Jobarteh Within one year this country is witnessing massive environmental violations that are deliberately and consciously perpetrated by the Gambia Government. Not only has the new Government failed...
Golden Lead, a Chinese fish meal processing factory mired in alleged waste dumping into the Ocean and surrounding environment of Gunjur, is yet again alleged of trading in CFA currency, to purchase fish from...
Gunjur youths to Golden Lead: Remove the waste pipe into the sea within 7 days or we will remove it ourselves! As the fallout over the environmental pollution between Golden Lead Fishmeal factory and...
Golden Lead Company, a Chinese owned fishmeal processing, import and export business in Gunjur, Kombo South, The Gambia has been taken to court for the second time in two months. Gunjur Development Forum (GDF), a consortium of Gunjur youths...
Monday 22 may. Villagers of Gunjur in the Gambia, thought they already had experienced the worst as they found out today that their wildlife reserve Bolong Fenyo has been poisoned by the Chinese Golden Lead Factory....