Sise Sawaneh

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Sise Sawaneh ( Sise Jaha Sawaneh , born 1993 in Garowol , Gambia; died on October 9, 2019 at Masembe ( Lower River Region , Gambia)) was a Gambian journalist and women's rights activist .

Life

Sawaneh was born in Garowol as the seventh of eight children to her mother. At the age of two weeks, she was a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM). She belonged to the Serahule ethnic group . She first attended an Islamic school, later Ndow's Comprehensive Nursery School and Ndow's Comprehensive Senior Secondary School , which she graduated in 2011. She then trained as a flight attendant at Information Formation Personnel Navigant Cabin (IFPNC) in Dakar (Senegal).

After her training, she worked as a journalist from around 2011 or 2013. She first worked for the business newspaper Market Place , later for Today Newspaper and from 2014 for The Standard . She also worked for the radio station Star FM . From at least 2015 she worked for the Gambian broadcasting company Gambia Radio & Television Service (GRTS). Around 2019 she also studied journalism at the University of Gambia .

In 2016 she received the Travel & Tourism Reporting Award from the Gambia Press Union (GPU) for her radio story Roots Homecoming Festival on Kunta Kinteh . The following year she was also a finalist for the award.

In particular, she campaigned for women's rights and against female genital mutilation. In November 2015, she welcomed the FGM ban imposed by the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh .

Sawaneh was involved in various organizations. She worked from at least 2013 for the peace and youth organization Peace Ambassadors and from at least 2014 as a board member of the Serahule Youth Development Organization (SYDO). In 2016 she was elected Second Vice President of the Sports Journalists' Association of The Gambia . From 2016 she was also the media ambassador for The Girl Generation organization . In May 2017, she was elected Deputy General Secretary of the Journalism Students' Association (JSA). She was a founding member of the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN).

On October 9, 2019, Sawaneh died in a traffic accident near Masembe ( Lower River Region ) that also killed two other people. The funeral of the three accident victims was attended by several thousand people.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Sise Sawaneh (1993–2019) - She Awards Gambia. Retrieved February 10, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ a b Super Girl of The Month - Sise Sawaneh. Retrieved February 9, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ Gambia: GPU Awardees Comment On Their Awards. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c GPU Confirms The Death of Journalist Sise Sawaneh in Car Accident. In: The Chronicle Gambia. October 9, 2019, Retrieved February 9, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ a b Gambia: FGM Banned in the Gambia. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  6. ^ Gambia: GPU Awards Nine Gambian Journalists. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Gambia: JFPH, GAMBLOOD Organize Blood Donation Campaign. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Gambia: Keneba Hold Garawol in Soninkara Youth Football Tourney. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Gambia: Musa Sise Elected SJAG President-As Sports Journalists Hold AGM. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Gambia: TGG Launches National Youth Anti FGM Network. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  11. ^ Gambia: Malick Mboob Is New President of UTG Journalism Association. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  12. ↑ GYIN Gambia Mourns Death of Journalist-cum-activist Sise Sawaneh. In: Mansa Banko Online. October 10, 2019, accessed February 10, 2020 (American English).
  13. ^ Madi S. Njie: Gambia: GRTS Reporter - Sise Sawaneh Dies in Car Accident. October 11, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Gambiana: Sise Sawaneh, others to be buried today. October 10, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 (UK English).
  15. ↑ HOUSANDS GATHER FOR FUNERAL OF SISE SAWANEH, PAPA TOURAY AND SAIKOU TOURAY. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sawaneh, Sise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian journalist and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Garowol
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2019
Place of death near Masembe ( Lower River Region , Gambia)