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Army equipped navy for effective sea surveillance
The Gambian navy plays a crucial role in monitoring Gambian waters for foreign vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The navy has arrested at least three vessels for IUU in the country’s waters in 2018. …
OIC to meet in Gambia to address plight of Rohingya Muslims
An Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Ad-Hoc Inter-Ministerial Committee on Accountability for Human Rights Violations against the Rohingya was established in May 2018, at the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh.…
Gambia: When reparations can’t wait
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) in Gambia keeps following its own singular path. Through high-profile and widely watched public hearings it seems to be running its investigations live instead of after the mass…
Press release: Gifts from Babylon on its way to Los Angeles
Dutch-Gambian film in competition for Best Short Narrative at PAFF 2019
The short film Gifts from Babylon has been selected in competition for Best Short Narrative at the upcoming Pan African Film Festival (PAFF), the largest black film…
APRC calls for resignation of the IEC chairman
The Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction, the party of Gambia’s former dictator, has called for the resignation of the country’s Independent Electoral Commission chairman.
The leader of the party, Fabakary Tombong Jatta,…
Taskforce implicates past BCC admin in corruption
A taskforce that probe the former administration of Banjul City Council has found widespread corruption and inefficient financial administration that caused the Council unnecessary loss of revenue.
The taskforce presented its report to…
Hamat criticizes Bar Association for opposing Barrow ‘Youth Movement’
The leader of the National Reconciliation Party, Hamat Bah, has criticized the president of the Gambia Bar Association for opposing the formation of the Barrow Youth for National Development.
Bah said he would take legal action against…
Caf to consider appeal from The Gambia over Olufade eligibility
By Momodou Bah, BBC
The Gambia Football Federation (GFF) has confirmed that the Confederation of African Football (Caf) will consider an appeal over the eligibility of Togo's Adewale Oloufade.
Caf dismissed the GFF's first protest which…
Tombong Jatta is leader of APRC not interim leader—IEC chairman
Information from the Independent Electoral Commission has revealed that Fabakary Tombong Jatta is the leader and secretary general of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party and not an interim leader as earlier…
‘Barrow should avoid partisan agenda, focus on transition’
The deputy administrative secretary of the United Democratic Party has urged President Adama Barrow to focus on country’s transitional agenda and avoid partisan political agenda.
Speaking at a Gunjur rally on Saturday, Alhagie S. Darboe,…