Buya Jammeh

I am Buya Jammeh I was born in Bakalarr Village North Bank Region of The Gambia I served as Recording Secretary for Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations CCCUN board of directors in New York for the past four and a half years.
I was in charge of all GPU email/website communications and the media monitoring project that I voluntarily headed.
I worked as a journalist in The Gambia for many years and was elected as an officer of The Gambian Press Union until I was fired by the pro-government Daily Observer due to my advocacy for press freedom in the country.
After challenging President Yahya Jammeh’s comments against slain journalist Deyda Hydara, I was long persecuted by the government. In June 2009, I went into exile in Senegal where I worked as a producer for Radio Alternative Voice Gambians, an online media outlet that breaks the information blockade inside The Gambia. From Senegal, I collected information from reporters inside The Gambia and prepares it for broadcast over the internet.
I hold honors certificate in global health diplomacy from the State University of New York, a professional certificate in Business Communication from Berkeley University in California USA. I received training at the International Institute of Journalism (IIJ) in 2009 and the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, both in Berlin, Germany 2010; training on radio broadcasting with the BBC World Service.
I was also train development journalism with special focus on climate change by Reuter’s and the Commonwealth Foundation. In 2013, I attended training for young human rights leaders organized by the UNESCO Chair and the Institute for Comparative Human Rights at the University of Connecticut.

I have a certificate in international human rights law at the University of Louvain Belgium, a certificate in youth and peacebuilding from the United Nations Institute for Training and research and, Certificate in journalism for Social change Berkeley University in California USA, a certificate in American Government from Harvard University through Edx online.
I have contributed to the index on censorship since 2009 and I was Senegambia Correspondent for the defunct Africanews.com in the Netherlands and a cultural diplomacy correspondent for the Institute for cultural diplomacy in Berlin.
I am a 2012 recipient of the Hellmann Hammet grant an award dedicated to journalists and writers who have been victims of political persecution due to their work.
I currently attending Madison Area Technicla College.