By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production unveil to you the battle to get Donald Trump’s nominee to the US Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, is now confirmed by the Senate and it begins today. The shifting ideological balance of the court will have an impact in all areas of American life and across the US – perhaps in no place more than Texas.

BBC said, Susan Lippman, a Democratic activist in Austin, Texas, was sitting in her car when she heard the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.

“I’m not too emotional,” she says. “But I let fly. I was raging and screaming. Pounding the steering wheel.”

Lippman instantly knew the impact that the loss of Ginsburg, a liberal legal icon, would have on the ideological composition of the court. If Donald Trump could successfully replace her with his choice for a justice, it would secure the conservative tilt of the top US judicial body for a generation.

So, a week after Ginsburg’s death, Lippman and her friend, Debbie White, were heading to protest outside the office of Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican senator who has pledged to confirm Ms Coney Barrett.

White says a 6-3 conservative majority in the court could directly attack Democratic Party priorities like government-managed healthcare and access to abortion services.

“I’m afraid that it’s going to do away with some very important things like the Affordable Care Act, which would be just awful because that would bother so many lives,” White says. “All the women’s rights and women’s health issues are a goner on a conservative Supreme Court.”

Source___BBC

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production notify you of the expectation in Liverpool City Region to face the tightest restrictions under a new “three-tier” system, which will classify regions as being on “medium”, “high” or “very high” alert.

According to BBC, Steve Rotheram, the city region’s mayor, says negotiations have taken place through the night but “no deal” has been agreed yet.

Meanwhile, the negotiation between local leaders in England and Westminster continue.

Liverpool recorded 600 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending 6 October. The average for England was 74.

The Liverpool City Region includes the local authority districts of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral, as well as Liverpool.

Source___BBC

By DT Empire

After pulsating performances at the Independence Stadium last year and the Gambia’s Fashion Awards, DT Empire is back again after their well and highly received hit singles like SUMA BABY, TIKLIS and CARE FOR YOU to name a few.

With DT Empire you always get the full package whenever they perform, good music and amazing dance performances.

So you don’t want to miss the launch of DT Empire’s hotly-anticipated debut E.P Album titled “CHOKOTAAN”.

Get ready for an explosion of feel-good music and spectacular dance moves. Stay updated with their launch by following DT Empire on all social media platform by searching for the handle @dtempireofficial.

DT Empire from Gambia to the World!

Kaddy Samateh is a living example of beauty with brains, not only does she have charming and attractive features but the queen is also a woman Boss. Kaddy also contested in many beauty pageants before auditioning for the 2019 Miss West Africa Gambia 2018 contest wherein she gained fame and caught everyone’s attention.

Afrinity Production draw attention to her numerous achievements and for her overwhelming participation in pageants since 2013.

Coming from an average family of 6 beautiful ladies, her family is her backbone and they are people who love her with everything they have and supports her in anything she is doing, and she love them a lot too.

For her being a beauty queen in The Gambia is very challenging and is not easy at all compared to other countries, due to the misconceptions surrounding the industry.

Kaddy contest in pageants because she want to use the platform to support the less privileged people and to also use the platform to advocate for women’s rights, FGM, Child marriage, rape, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and a host of other segments that are dragging women behind, with beauty pageants she believe her voice can be heard.

Kaddy Samateh contested in the following pageants;Miss Red Cross 2013, Face of MJ beauty salon 2014, Miss Bakau 2015, Miss Gunjur ( Pentagon ) 2016, Miss west coast region 2017, Miss Nayconf 2017, Miss West Africa Gambia 2018 and Miss Glam World 2019.

Kaddy’s first international pageant was Miss Glam world which took place in India in April 2019. Which was an opportunity given to her by Buddy’s promotion as a package for her winning the First Runner Up title in the Miss West Africa Gambia pageant. Out of 37 countries she made to the top 15 and won the Miss Personality Award. The journey for her will not have been possible without the support of the First Lady of The Gambia.

She is inspired by risk. Starting something she have no idea how to finish, witnessing people go for something new anything that has the potential for failure (but not total disaster) gets her heart pumping.

Samateh don’t dislike anything about the pageant world because for her pageant is the only platform that can change one’s life for good and help you make an impact in other people’s life as well.

Kaddy look up to the following people; her Mom who is her biggest inspiration, Merci Johnson a Nigerian Actress whom she look up to her personality and the way she interpret her script which is one thing she will want to learn from her and Miss universe Catriona Gray 2018.

Queen Samateh’s goal is to change the narratives and misconceptions surrounding beauty pageants in The Gambia and Africa as a whole.

She is currently preparing for Miss Globe 2020 and we wish her the very best.

By Amie T. Camara

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production unveil the state by President Muhammadu Buhari in congratulating the new Emir of Zazzau, Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, advising him to be the leader of all.

The Nigerian leader congratulatory message was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

“While you bask in the glory of the moment, I want you to be the leader to all and treat all your people fairly in the performance of your duties,” Buhari was quoted as saying.

“This is a challenging moment and therefore, I want you to use this opportunity to unite all members of the ruling houses for the interest of your people.”

President Buhari noted that the new emir made history following his emergence as the “first emir from the Mallawa ruling house in 100 years.”

While noting that his appointment is well deserved, Buhari asked the new Zazzau monarch to justify the confidence reposed in him.

Source___Channels TV

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production confirmed the dead of Eight people following a gas plant explosion that occurred in the Ipaja area of Lagos on earlier today.

According to a statement by the Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, the incident occurred around 6:00 am, destroying several properties.

While further assessment of the area is still ongoing, a tweet by the emergency response agency, disclosed that an initial disaster assessment revealed that eight fatalities have been identified.

Source___Channels TV

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production draw attention to workers in Indonesia who are protesting for the third straight day after a new job creation law was passed this week.

According to BBC, thousands have taken part in strikes and demonstrations in several cities, with hundreds detained by the police.

Protesters are worried that the so-called “omnibus law” will hurt both workers and the environment.

But the government says the changes are needed to help its economy which has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Demonstrations have gathered steam in the capital Jakarta and other cities such as Bandung on Wednesday and Thursday, after relatively peaceful protests earlier in the week.

Indonesian police detained at least 400 protesters, including some who were allegedly armed with molotov cocktails and sharp weapons.

The bill, which is over 1,000 pages long and amends 79 existing laws, was passed on Monday with the support of seven out of nine parties.

Source___BBC

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production make known to you the confirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil which have passed five million, with deaths in the country approaching 150,000, officials say.

Brazil’s health ministry reported 31,553 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the total infections to 5,000,694.

The country is the third worst hit for infections, after the US and India.

President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of downplaying the risks of the virus throughout the pandemic, ignoring expert advice on restrictive measures.

Mr Bolsonaro has rejected criticism of his handling of the pandemic, but his decision to oppose lockdowns and focus on the economy has been hugely divisive.

On Tuesday, Brazil recorded 734 new fatalities, bringing the death toll to 148,228, the ministry said.

Brazil has the highest number of deaths in Latin America.

The state of São Paulo has been the worst hit, with around 36,000 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with about 19,000.

Source___BBC

Afrinity Production draw attention to Fatou Jeng who has over five years’ experience in Climate Change and Environmental Development work . She completed her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Digital Media at the University of the Gambia with distinctions and made an undergraduate thesis on Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change in the Gambia. She is currently pursuing her masters degree at the University of Sussex, UK as a Chevening scholar 2020.

Fatou is the founder of Clean Earth Gambia, an Environmental NGO working mainly on climate related issues, she is also the Policy Operations lead for Women and Gender to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Youth Constituency and Secretary General of Plant-for-the- Planet Global Board.

She has supported with several youth policy papers and positions on climate change especially on the Gender Action Plan, Action for Climate Empowerment, Youth in Agricultural initiatives to mitigate climate change and was one of the young people who facilitated youth engagements during the Africa Climate Week in 2019.

Fatou has trained over 500 school children on Climate Change in The Gambia and provided training to communities, youth and youth organizations on pressing environment challenges. Organized series of cleansing exercise, media outreach and community outreach on climate change and the environment. Currently, her organization is partnering with future proof banjul to plant 5000 coconut trees at the banjul beach to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

“I started engaging in the fight against climate change because of the impacts it has in The Gambia such as sea level rise in Banjul. Experts have mentioned that Banjul will be inundated under a one meter sea level rise. Banjul has a population of over 30,000 people which means these people will be impacted by this climate change threat,” she said.

Jeng also engages in series of tree planting exercises and publishes environment articles on the Chronicle Online news (one of the leading online news platforms in the Gambia).
She has served as a speaker in many International and national conferences on the environment such as; Speaker at the Global Landscape Forum (Bonn, 2018), moderator during the plenary session on SDG13 at the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum (New York, 2019), Speaker on Gender and Climate Change at the official closing ceremony at the Global Conference of Youth on Climate Change (Bonn, 2017), Speaker at ECOSOC Youth Forum on SDG7 (New York, 2018), Facilitator at ACE Youth Forum( Bonn, 2018), Speaker at UN DAY( Gambia, 2018), Moderator, Open Dialogue with UN Youth Envoy and UNFCCC secretariat( Katowice, 2018) and many more.

She was recently part of a group of 20 female climate activists from global south who wrote an open letter to the G20 finance ministers during the G20 meeting demanding for climate action.

Fatou has received series of recognitions and award for her work in creating awareness on the environment. She was recently awarded as one of the 25 Emerging Young Persons in
Africa during the Youth Entrepreneurship Summit ,2019.

Youth Dialogue recently awarded her as “Youth of the Month” in June 2019 for her impact in creating awareness on environmental issues. What’s on Gambia recognized her as one of the 30 most Influential Youth leaders of the
year., influential-young-gambians-of-2019 and the Pan African Youth Leadership Foundation awarded her a youth Leadership Award 2019 for contributing to the development of her community.

She was one of the 30 Young people selected by the United Nations Youth Envoy office to support the organization of the first ever United Nations Youth Climate Summit in 2019 .Through her engagements, she has developed strong mobilization, networking, coordination and communication skills which is of significant value to the work she does for her community.

Fatou look up to Wangari Maathai, a Nobel peace prize winner from Kenya who was a politician and an eco-warrior.

Her goal is to complete her studies in Environment, Development and Policy and then head the National Environment Agency. Also to Lecture at the University of The Gambia on Climate Change and build Clean Earth Gambia to continue to compliment the efforts of the government in mitigating the climate crises.

By Amie T. Camara

The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Geoffrey Onyeama and the Honourable Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, H.E. Amb. Zubairu Dada, yesterday, 6th October, 2020, received in audience the Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, H.E. Dr. Mamadou Tangara and Minister of Defence, Mr. Sheikh Omar Faye.

The Gambian Ministers and members of delegation were on a thank you visit for the numerous support and assistance Nigeria continues to render Gambia and to discuss bilateral issues aimed at further deepening relations between the two countries.

The delegation paid glowing tributes to the exploits of Nigerians in the development of Gambia, especially in the Gambian Judiciary.

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