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Coach Saintfiet names squad for Scorpions AFCON clash with Angola

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Scorpions head coach, Tom Saintfiet has named a strong provisional thirty-six man squad for his side 2021 Africa Cup of Nations group D qualifiers opener away to Angola on 13 November in Luanda.    Coach Saintfiet will select a solid team to face the Angolans in the continent’s bi-annual biggest showpiece qualifiers, who eliminated his side from 2022 World Cup qualifiers last month. They required proper preparation ahead of their much-anticipated clash with Angola on 13 November in Launda to keep their chances of snatching a victory after the final whistle.  The players in the provisional squad are. Goalkeepers 1.Modou Jobe-Jeddah Arabia 2.Sheikh Sibi-Virtus-Italy  3.Baboucarr Gaye-SG Wattenscheid-Germany  4.Alagie Nyabally-Gambia Ports Authority Defenders 5. Pa Jagne-FC Zurich-Switzerland 6. Ibou Touray Salford-England 7. Omar Colley-Sampdoria-Italy 8. Mohammed Mbaye-Mjallby-Sweden 9. Bubacarr Sannneh-Goztepe-Turkey 10. Sulayman Boj

UDP militant says David Colley led her, Darboe, others to Mile 2

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Jukuna Suso, a victim of human right violations in 1994, 1996 and 2016 and a party militant of the United Democratic Party (UDP) yesterday told the truth-seeking commission that it was former prison director David Colley who led her, the UDP party leader Ousainou Darboe and about 30 other people who were demonstrating for the death of Solo Sandeng in 2016 into Mile 2.   Explaining the incident, Mrs Suso said she went to Pipeline and Solo Sandeng died the following day, adding that her father called and informed her and she went to Ousainou  Darboe’s house and found them at the sitting room. She said that was the time Darboe wanted to go out for demonstration and he told them not to go with weapons. On whether she knew how Solo died, she testified that she heard that Solo and others went out to demonstrate and he was arrested and taken to NIA where he died. On that demonstration, the witness indicated that Darboe went with Lamin Dibba, Modou Sanneh, Fakebba and many o

TRRC witness censures Yankuba Colley, Ex-Interior minister Sonko for their Mile 2 miseries

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A woman who said security agents wrongly arrested and detained her at the notorious Mile 2 State Central Prison in GambiaĆ¢€™s capital, Banjul holds former Mayor of Kanifing Municipal Council Yankuba Colley and one-time interior minister Ousman Sonko responsible for their miseries.   Fatou Camara told the TRRC in her testimony on Thursday that she was never part of the April 14 2016 electoral reform protest but was arrested alongside other United Democratic Party (UDP) members and tortured by the defunct National Intelligence Agency (NIA) officers.  She said it was former Kanifing Mayor Yankuba Colley and former Interior minister Ousman Sonko who led their detention on the orders of former President Yahya Jammeh. Explaining how she got to Mile 2 Central Prison, Mrs Camara said on the day she was arrested, she was looking for a particular grass and was directed to a Malian in Kanifing, where she was going to. She said when she reached a junction on her way to Kan