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President Adama Barrow returns to Banjul on Tuesday following a brief rural tour President Adama Barrow has laid a foundation stone for the first teacher training college in rural Gambia, the Gambia College School of Education Campus in…

Football's world governing body, Fifa, has found Seedy Kinteh guilty of corruption. Former Gambia Football Federation president Seedy Kinteh is the latest official to be banned by Fifa, reported BBC on Tuesday. The former president of…

Following the 1994 military coup which toppled country’s first ruler Dawda Kairaba Jawara, soldiers have unceremoniously seized assets of top government officials Bakary Bunja Darboe, former vice president of the Gambia, has said they…

Over the weekend of December 14, the APRC party held their Congress in an unsavoury classroom in Bwiam where they issued a very tragic resolution confirming former dictator Yaya Jammeh as their party leader and flagbearer as well as…

Lawmakers debate the budget estimates of 2019 about a week after it was tabled by finance minister Mamburay Njie.   The lawmaker representing Banjul North, Ousman Sillah, has cautioned the government to ensure judicious use of state…

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has announced on Monday that it has appointed advisers to help put its debt on a “sustainable path”. Gambia has been facing a heavy debt burden with the International Monetary Fund warning the…

Former president Yahya Jammeh faces several allegations of murder and torture during his 22-year rule. The delegates at the congress of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction Party (APRC) have elected former president…

Gambian media remembers murdered journalist Deyda Hydara Justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou said the administration of president Adama Barrow will ensure that the good governance wishes and aspirations of Gambians are realized after…

By Demba A. Jawo, former communications and information minister It is 14 years since the brutal murder of Deyda Hydara by yet unknown assassins, and we are still not much wiser as to who may have been responsible for the heinous crime…

Ordinary men and women need support in their fight to claim and protect their liberties, and their natural protectors are the courts. 1            Introduction I want to share with you my thoughts on judicial reform in The Gambia against…