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“The UDP recognises that, as a nation, we face several challenges — some caused by the legacy of dictatorship and some triggered by global events beyond our control, but we are also cognisant of the self-inflicted wounds on the body politic…

According to Gambian authorities, Riverine Flooding has affected a population of 57,912 in The Gambia in the past four years. The Gambia and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have signed a project…

The Newspaper Publishers’ Association of The Gambia, the umbrella body of all the newspaper publishers, have issued a strong statement rejecting screening and background checks for State House press corps. The Association is the latest…

On Saturday, March 30, the Gambia Press Union (GPU) convened an emergency general meeting in response to a new policy by the State House requiring journalists to undergo security screening at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) for…

The International Federation of Journalists -affiliated Gambia Press Union (GPU) has called on journalists not to comply with new rules imposed on journalists seeking to cover events in the Presidency. The GPU confirmed that the Office…

The investigation into the financial dealings of the former President Yahya Jammeh has found him to be acutely corrupt. Gambia’s justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou said on Friday that country’s former president Yahya Jammeh has stolen…

A witness before the Truth, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (TRRC) who was jailed for 9 years without trial has been given D175, 000 and a plot of land on Thursday to rebuild his life.   Mafugie Sonko, a private Gambian soldier…

By Mamadou Edrisa Njie As the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia chapter’s planned 3rd Edition of the Rural Youth Awards 2019 drew closer, the National Organizing Committee (NOC) have received about two hundred and five (205)…

Ensa Mendy, a former bodyguard to former Junta member Yankuba Touray has confessed to participating in the killing of two soldiers at Fajara Barracks on the orders of Sanna Sabally. According to his testimony, following the July 1994…

One of the guards at Yankuba Touray’s residence has told the Truth Commission on Thursday that they were sent on a ‘wild goose chase’ the night former finance minister Koro Ceesay was murdered. According to various testimonies before…