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I take this opportunity to speak against the Supplementary Appropriation Bill (SAB) recently placed before Parliament by the Minister of Finance. The uncontrolled ballooning of the domestic debt by the government will further mortgage…

On June 15, 2020 The United States Department of State released the 2020 Fiscal Transparency Report, which assessed that The Gambia made significant progress in its continuing efforts at government fiscal reform. The Department’s…

Impeccable sources have informed Kerr Fatou that the Managing director of the National water and electricity company Nawec has been sacked. Our sources added that he has been replaced by his deputy, Nani Juwara. It is not yet known…

The Gambia police have dropped charges against human rights and pro-democracy activist Madi Jobarteh. He was charged with false and publication and broadcasting of after he gave an interview to the media in which he accused the…

STATEMENT The Gambia: drop the charges of false information and broadcasting against human rights activist Madi Jobarteh…

PRESS STATEMENT The Gambia Bar Association has noted with great concern the successive declarations of a State of Public Emergency (SOPE) by the President of the Republic on the 19th May 2020, 10th June 2020, 1st July 2020 and 7th…

The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, on Monday 6th July 2020 received the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, H.E. Sr. Ruben Abelenda, at his office in Banjul. In his opening statement, Minister Tangara…

State House, Banjul, 7th July 2020 In exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 34(6) of the 1997 Constitution, His Excellency, Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of The Gambia has declared a State of Public Emergency…

On Thursday, June 25, 2020 the TRRC concluded its fourteenth three-week session of public hearings. During that session, 21 witnesses appeared before the Commission. The total number of witnesses appearing before the Commission since the…

By Toney F Mendy The assumption of power in the continent since the dawn of independence (with lessons to be best drawn from home) created a new phenomenon of struggle for freedom and justice and even the professed New Gambia is not…