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The Media Foundation for West Africa provides an analysis of the pre-election media and political landscape of The Gambia.

By Shamindra Ferdinando The police have questioned former MP Nirupama Rajapaksa as regards revelations made by Pandora Papers pertaining to secret offshore financial transactions. Authoritative sources told The Island that the police unit assigned to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) recorded the former Deputy Minister’s statement on Dec 1, though […]

Thank you for providing Human Rights Watch with the opportunity to testify on Sri Lanka today. It is more than 12 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war, and the defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said earlier this year, the country’s human rights situation is now deteriorating. The government is, under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, “in a state of denial about the past,” and there are “warning signals” that grave rights violations may recur. Civil society grou...

Thank you for providing Human Rights Watch with the opportunity to testify on Sri Lanka today. It is more than 12 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s

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