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One of Gambia’s leading historians, Dembo Fatty, has done an amazing research on the ancestry of country’s former president Yahya Jammeh that strongly suggested he may have descended from the rulers of Baddibou Illiasa. Jammeh himself…

The First Lady of the Republic, Her Excellency, Fatoumatta Barrow on Monday joined a group of medical personnel and educationists from Delaware, U.S. at a needs assessment exercise at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul.…

The secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in The Gambia is targeting to acquire 395 limousines, 60 of which is expected to be bulletproof, in preparation for the 2019 summit. The vehicles will be used to transport…

According to a ranking by an American business magazine, Forbes, Gambia is among the top ten worst business destinations in Africa for 2018. South Africa clinched the first position on the index for best country to do business on the…

  After a closed-door meeting with His Excellency, President Adama Barrow, the Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Tony Blair - former British Prime Minister - told the State House media corps on Monday that…

The Minister of agriculture, Lamin Dibba, has promised urgent actions to dispose of thousands of bags of ‘toxic fertilizer’ in state custody. The Gambia government in 2009 purchased 9, 500 tons of fertilizer at a tune of 130, 800, 000…

The last interior minister of Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh, Momodou A. Bah, has resigned from the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party. Bah announced his resignation from the party in a letter written to…

The former lawmaker who has been charged for incitement of violence and sedition for reportedly ‘insulting’ Mandinkas has denied any wrongdoing. Abdoulie Saine, a prominent member of Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction…

Alagie Yerro Jallow, the co-proprietor of the former independent newspaper, has warned of the potential threats facing press freedom in Gambia as he congratulated the new president of the Gambia Press Union. Jallow, a veteran journalists…

A veteran Gambian journalist who has been working for West African Democracy Radio, Sheriff Bojang Jr, has been elected as the president of the Gambia Press Union. Bojang, a content producer for Kerr Fatou online show call The Brunch,…