Mark Williams

25 years a visitor. 11 years a resident. Forever a foreigner.

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"Men, Trim Your Wives' Nests"!

Kenya's The Nairobian on the "Black Forest".

I think I prefer Gambian newspapers...

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@Rigamortiiz No, the contradiction here is in your not reading what I said, which was that children asserting that, as told by someone at their darrer, "Christmas is bad." If you think that counts as tolerance then you need a new dictionary.

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@DrKebsun @Tinfoil_Hijabi I'm not a Christian but being white it is assumed I am, and for the past ten years, every year, the children, and many adults, have made the usual social overtures.

This year children (many) are forthrightly saying "Christmas is bad". Have never experienced this before.

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My eleventh Christmas here is notable for the unusual anti-Christmas sentiment among local children, very different from past years.

Local darrers it seems are this year actively telling the children Christmas is a bad thing.

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@Tinfoil_Hijabi Of course not, but most years the children see Xmas as a holiday and a time for fun, parties, etc. This year, for the first time ever, I'm hearing lots of children locally say Christmas is, their words, "bad", which they confirm is what they are being told at Darrer.

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@Rigamortiiz That's a pretty dumb response. Who said anyone harmed anybody? It was an observation on the contradiction in supposedly tolerant Islamic attitudes towards other religions. And I am not a Christian so it is not my celebration.

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Netherlands will lockdown over Christmas. Bye, bye Dutch tourists.

It looks likely UK will lockdown from December 26.

Another catastrophic tourist season looms for The Gambia.

https://t.co/2Q8fE7FZS0

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Germany bans UK tourists as Omicron crisis spirals out of control.

https://t.co/atJZuqtz4t

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Man, 51, jailed for life for raping foster daughter, 14.

https://t.co/PtwrZ6ELF9

[Bundung Maternal & Child Health Hospital -Official @BMCHH_Gambia]

As the new #COVID19 spread fast across the globe, you are reminded to adhere to covid19 protocols.

The fight against covid19 isn’t over and you are a critical stakeholder in its containment.

#BMCHH220
#Gambia
#MondayMotivation

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@lare_sisay Another example of govt. overreach that would be laughable were it not so serious.

This time it's DRC.

https://t.co/vdwmtnweLM

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@lare_sisay Was thinking more broadly than just ZA, which agreed has a good reputation since Mandela's tenure.

But constitutional safeguards need to be in place, as Zimbabwe, Uganda and Gambia's own recent history show.

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@lare_sisay The only flaw there being it will be the government that will decide what is fake or misinformation.

As Trump has taught us, it's very easy for a govt. to dismiss anything it doesn't like as fake news.

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@mamajohm Sadly it reflects what happens at home.

Domestic and gender-based violence awareness has made big strides this past ten years, but beating children is still totally acceptable, it seems.

The Child Protection Alliance needs more funding and more resources.

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CBG Governor says current commodity price surge in the country to the “the structural bottlenecks at the Banjul Ports”.

Yet the port is the same size as last year when prices were not as high.

https://t.co/P2f6zbrddU

[Punch Newspapers @MobilePunch]

BREAKING: NCDC confirms two cases of Omicron variant in Nigeria https://t.co/H3LJODBd5d

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Floods, sewage and crocodiles: the crisis of the Gambia’s sinking city.

https://t.co/Uw5zAvhAS6

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The next Gambian government might want to keep this in mind as it cosies up to foreign capital.

Uganda set to lose its only international airport to China for failing to repay loan.

https://t.co/G68ZlKDTp5