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The presence of ECOMIG mission in the Gambia until today highlights everything that is wrong in this country since 2017 for which each and every citizen must be highly concerned. The story of the Gambia between 1994 and 2016 is common…

By Buba Gagigo The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment has blamed the recent increase in the cost of basic commodities on foreign and local factors, citing covid-19 as the underlying factor. “These…

The Ministry of Health threatened to publish identities of Coronavirus patients who escaped quarantine, and currently interacting with the public, thereby posing them ‘serious health risk’, if they fail to self-report to health…

Yesterday, Saturday January 23 the heads of state of ECOWAS held their 58th ordinary session via videoconference and chaired by the President of Ghana. In the communique issued after the summit, the West African leaders have decided to…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will transform the ECOMIG forces into a Police Mission, after Gambia’s highly anticipated presidential election in December 2021. This decision followed extension of the mandate of…

The high-voltage acid tone of current discussions is no handiwork of the media   By Famara Fofana There is no gainsaying that the Gambian media has seen it all in in the recent past. Not only were disappearances of journalists,…

PRESS STATEMENT   The Government of the Republic of The Gambia wishes to inform the general public that it has on Tuesday 12th January 2021 signed a Cooperation Agreement on migration matters with the Government of Switzerland in the…

Remembering 19th January 2017: President Barrow expresses gratitude State House, Banjul, 19th January 2021: This day in 2017, His Excellency, President Adama Barrow was sworn in at The Gambian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal,…

By D. A. Jawo When Gambians came out in large numbers and against all the odds on 1st December 2016 to vote out the dictatorial regime of President Yahya Jammeh, the foremost thing in their minds, among other things, was to…

Musu Bakoto Sawo, a Gambian changemaker and tireless women rights advocate, has emerged winner of the 2020 Daily Trust African of the Year award. A seven-member award selection committee led by the former President of Botswana, His…