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By Arfang M.S. Camara The European Union (EU) is set to expand its support to young Gambians by enabling the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) to venture into new, well-needed activities, and extending its implementation period to…

By Arfang M.S. Camara Lamin B. Dibba, the Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources has expressed the need for urgent action to be taken and outlined ambitions to address the crisis facing nature in the year 2020.…

Dated Monday, 8th June 2020 Banjul, The Gambia In the wake of malicious and subversive audio messages circulating on Social Media warning The Gambia Government of a looming coup plot allegedly being hatched by some private citizens,…

Land is inherently personal and precious both in terms of sentimental/emotional attachment to it and its stock as a valuable asset. I am perhaps too young to accurately capture how my parents and grandparents’ generations acquired…

June 8, 2020 On 29th April 2020, on behalf of the Commissioners, I presented to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice the Interim Report of the Commission for transmittal to the President. It would be recalled that pursuant to…

It is important for people to understand and frame the current unrest in the United States as a struggle by moral people. This long historic struggle for justice for the descendants of people who endured slavery for 250 years, who then…

In modern history, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has emerged as the most visible and sustained collective mobilization for racial justice in the United States and arguably in the Global West. The movement keeps growing While…

By Arfang M.S. Camara The government of the Gambia has waived restrictions on congressional prayers at houses of worship after ten-weeks of lockdowns that followed the Coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, Muslims observed the Friday…

The Government has taken note of the recent ruling by The Gambia Court of Appeal in the case of M.A. Kharafi and Sons Limited vs the Attorney General civil appeal no. GCA 046/2019 delivered on 1 June 2020. The Government notes that…

By Arfang M.S. Camara The president of the Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Edi Mass Jobe, has called on the Gambia government to raise a fund of D100 million to support small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), with…