Sheriff Bojang (journalist, 1974)

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Sheriff Bojang (2016)

Sheriff Baba Bojang (rarely Sheriff Bojang, Sr .; born November 20, 1974 in Brikama ) is a Gambian journalist , editor and politician .

Life

Bojang attended the Gambia Senior Secondary School in Banjul .

He began his career as a journalist in April 1992 for the Gambian newspaper The Daily Observer . In September 1999, he was briefly detained for newspaper articles and interrogated by officers from the National Intelligence Agency . Together with his team of editors, including Ndey Tapha Sosseh and Hassoum Ceesay , he revived the then-defunct Weekend Observer in 2000 . When he left the Observer in June 2001, he had been its editor-in-chief and managing director.

After studying in Great Britain , Bojang returned to The Gambia in May 2010 and founded The Standard and launched the as a new daily newspaper that quickly gained a large readership. The Standard was shut down by the Yahya Jammeh government in September 2012 , likely because of official disapproval of reporting on the 2012 executions , but was allowed to resume publication in January 2014.

Bojang is the contact person for the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) in Bakau , where he lives. In January 2015, Bojang was appointed Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure, succeeding Crispin Gray-Johnson . With his appointment as Minister of Information , he severed his ties to the standard . In this capacity he gained international fame when he announced the decision of the Jammeh government in October that the Gambia intended to leave the International Criminal Court .

President Yahya Jammeh's efforts to challenge the results of the 2016 presidential election are “an attempt to undermine the express will” of the Gambian people, he said in a statement on his resignation as a protest from his ministerial post, Reuters news agency reported. State television reported on the contrary that Sheriff Bojang had been fired. At that time, Bojang was in Dakar and asked for political asylum. His successor as minister was Seedy SK Njie .

family

Dembo Bojang , longtime politician of the United Democratic Party (UDP) and member of the National Assembly from 1978 to 2002 for the constituency of Bathurst North , is Bojang's uncle. Sheriff Bojang is the older cousin of journalist Sheriff Bojang Jr.

Awards and honors

Web links

Commons : Sheriff Bojang  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d David Perfect: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Fifth ed. Lanham, Maryland 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6522-6 , pp. 63-64 .
  2. ↑ a b Politics Gone Mad; Did Dembo Rattle Sheriff Bojang's Cage? In: kaironews.com. CAIRO NEWS, February 10, 2016, accessed July 12, 2020 (UK English).
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: International Criminal Court: Gambia announces withdrawal - DER SPIEGEL - politics. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved July 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Gambian minister 'quits in protest' . In: BBC News . January 17, 2017 ( bbc.com ).
  5. ^ Minister Bojang resigns. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 10, 2017, accessed on July 12, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Alpha Kamara: Gambian minister abandons Jammeh, flees to Senegal. In: weebly.com. January 10, 2017, accessed on July 12, 2020 .
  7. ^ Gambia: President Jammeh's Spokesman Named Information Minister. In: jollofnewspaper.com. January 9, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2020 (American English).
  8. ↑ Sheriff Bojang Jr, the younger cousin of former Gambian information ... In: gettyimages.de. Getty Images, accessed July 12, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Gambia: President Confers Awards On Over 700 Personalities Celebration of the Prestigious Awards Conferred On His Excellency & Awards Ceremony of the July 22nd Revolution. In: The Daily Observer. August 22, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bojang, sheriff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bojang Sr., sheriff; Bojang, Sheriff Baba (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian journalist, editor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Brikama