The Gambia's inspector general said nobody is allowed to protest without an approved permit. [1] Reuters filed the ban after unrest over prolonged power cuts, with police using tear gas and 11 people arrested over vandalism. [1] A permit rule is not a cancelled election. Print the ban. Do not print December as called off.

Touray warned unauthorized gatherings would be met with necessary force, in the same Reuters wrap. [1] Force language is a warning. It is not a named casualty table. Print the permit. Leave a named death count to the edition that owns one.

Friday recap that treats a Public Order Act reminder as a state of emergency is a feed, not Reuters. Print unpermitted banned. Print not a postponed vote.

December elections cast long shadows; every permit denial reads as prelude. Touray's force language raises the temperature without striking a match. Friday's ban is paperwork with an edge.

Edged paperwork cuts permits, not votes; Friday's cut is paper. Paper preludes December. Matches stay unstruck.

Matches stay unstruck; Friday's ban is unpermitted, not a postponed vote. December elections cast the shadow. Touray raised the temperature on paper.

Touray's permit rule followed unrest over prolonged power cuts, with tear gas in the same Reuters wrap. Eleven people arrested over vandalism is the named police count. Unauthorized gatherings are banned on paper; a state of emergency is not in this file. December remains unpostponed.
Touray raised the temperature on paper. December elections still cast the shadow. A state of emergency is not in this file.

Touray raised the temperature on paper. December elections still cast the shadow. December remains unpostponed.

-- CHARLES ASHFORD, London