Born in Bakalar, The Gambia, Buya Jammeh worked as a journalist in his native country for nine years and was elected as an officer of The Gambia Press Union until he was fired by the pro-government Daily Observer due to his advocacy for press freedom in the country. After challenging President Yahya Jammeh’s comments against slain journalist Deyda Hydara, Buya himself was long persecuted by the government and in June 2009 went into exile in Senegal, where he works for Radio Alternative Voice Gambians, an online media that breaks the information blockade inside The Gambia. From Senegal, he collects information from underground reporters inside The Gambia and prepares it for broadcast via the Internet.
Buya is also former coordinator of the media monitoring unit of the Gambia Press Union.
Mr. Jammeh has attended series of training with institutions like the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin; Germany; BBC World Service; Reuters Foundation; Commonwealth Foundation; African Commission on Human and people’s Rights; Save the Children Neitherlands and the Pan African Centre on Gender and Development in collaboration with University for Peace.
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Born in Bakalar, The Gambia, Buya Jammeh worked as a journalist in his native country for nine years and was elected as an officer of The Gambia Press Union until he was fired by the pro-government Daily Observer due to his advocacy for press freedom in the country. After challenging President Yahya Jammeh’s comments against slain journalist Deyda Hydara, Buya himself was long persecuted by the government and in June 2009 went into exile in Senegal, where he works for Radio Alternative Voice Gambians, an online media that breaks the information blockade inside The Gambia. From Senegal, he collects information from underground reporters inside The Gambia and prepares it for broadcast via the Internet.
Buya is also former coordinator of the media monitoring unit of the Gambia Press Union.
Mr. Jammeh has attended series of training with institutions like the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin; Germany; BBC World Service; Reuters Foundation; Commonwealth Foundation; African Commission on Human and people’s Rights; Save the Children Neitherlands and the Pan African Centre on Gender and Development in collaboration with University for Peace.
