DAKAR, Sept 26, 2007 (AFP) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Wednesday said it feared that Gambian journalist Ebrima Manneh, who went missing more than a year ago, had been killed by state authorities.

Manneh, a reporter at the pro-government Daily Observer newspaper, is believed to have been arrested after he was seen being hauled away by police outside his offices in July last year.

He has not been seen or heard from since.

BANJUL, Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) - A prominent journalist at Gambia's state-owned television and a presidential press officer have been re-arrested for allegedly giving out security information to the press, media watchdogs said Friday.

Malick Jones, a senior producer at Gambia's public TV, and Mam Sait Ceesay, a presidential spokesman arrested last week for giving out sensitive information to an unnamed foreign journalist, had been released on bail by a magistrate on Thursday.

But as the pair walked away from the court after their bail was paid, they were arrested again.

DAKAR, Aug 20, 2007 (AFP) - Close to 100 would-be illegal migrants trying to sail to Europe in rickety vessels were intercepted in two separate incidents in Senegal over the weekend, police said Monday.

A joint European-Senegalese patrol aircraft spotted a group of 87 Senegalese and Gambians on the high seas, police spokesman Alioune Ndiaye said.

Another group of seven, all Senegalese, including two women, were intercepted in a separate incident after they set sail in a wooden dug-out canoe, he said.

BANJUL, Aug 13, 2007 (AFP) - A Gambian court last week sentenced three people to 20 years in jail with hard labour for their parts in a plot to topple President Yahya Jammeh, documents showed Monday.

The verdict last Thursday was handed down by the president of the High Court, Avril Anin Yeboah, according to a copy of the court documents seen by AFP.

Former treasury official Alieu Jobe, former police and immigration official Tamsir Jasseh, and religious leader Omar Faal Keita were found guilty of 'treason,' 'plotting,' and 'complicity in treason,' the document said.