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Justice prevails as Brikama Magistrates Court dropped charges against the Gunjur Six today. The youths who helped in the removal of the illegal pipeline from Golden Lead Factory in Gunjur were earlier this year arrested...
Wetland Pollution at Bolong Fenyo Community Wildlife Reserve, in Gunjur: What does out of Court settlement between National Environment Agency and Chinese Golden Lead Fish Meal Processing Company means to the health of the...
This is part of “Ocean Shock,” a Reuters series exploring climate change’s impact on sea creatures and the people who depend on them. Greyhound Bay was once a place where old ships came to...
The amount of dead washed up cetaceans in the Gambia are rising to worrisome numbers. Yesterday another whale was found at Gunjur’s beach. Yes, the same beach as where Golden Lead Factory is operating....
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...
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...
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 By Sainey Darboe As the fallout over the environmental pollution between Golden Lead Fishmeal factory...
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....