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China-Gambia cooperation impressive: Chinese ambassador
Ma Jianchun, China's new ambassador to The Gambia, said Thursday at a reception marking his welcoming to the country that cooperation between the two countries is already impressive.
"The China-Gambia cooperation in various areas is…
Lawmaker berates Gov’t over insensitivity to plights of disables
A nominated lawmaker and chairperson of the Gambia Organisation of the Visually Impaired has criticized Gambia government for being insensitive to the plight of people living with disability in the country.
Ndey Secka said country’s…
CRC frowns at Gov’t’s statement on death penalty
The Constitutional Review Commission said Government’s statement on abolishing death penalty could unduly influence the views of the people as they conduct their nationwide consultations.
Spokesperson of the Gambia government Ebrima…
WCR: UDP threatens disciplinary action against ‘unruly’ behavior
The United Democratic Party has threatened to take action against their members whose “unruly” behaviours have led to the cancellation of the regional congress of the West Coast Region.
The leader of the United Democratic Party has…
Bright Stars Entertainment oozes bright Spark in Gambia’s creative sector
By Famara Fofana
The quartet of Bu Garta B, Bu Guda B, Kujalify and Papa Jerry on Saturday November 17, 2018 cemented their name in the annals of The Gambia’s creative industry with a string of comedy acts that left hundreds of people in…
U.S Senators urge TRRC to probe “murdered” journalist’s case
Six Senators of the United States of America have issued a letter urging Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission to investigate the case of “murdered” journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh.
The letter highlights the…
Tricked and trafficked: A Gambian woman who left her kidney behind
Gambia prohibits all forms of trafficking through its October 2007 Trafficking in Persons Act. The law prescribes penalties from 15 years' to life imprisonment.
By Mustapha K Darboe
Binta Jagne* left The Gambia for Lebanon with promise…
UDP denies claims of internal division after WCR stalled congress
The spokesperson of the United Democratic Party, Almamy Taal, said the party is going to congress in December when it will select its secretary general.
The two hundred and fifty delegates of the United Democratic Party in the West…
Who ordered the arrest of Kasim Fadera of Jarra Soma?
Kasim Fadera is a resident of Jarra Soma in LRR. He is a member in a UDP WhatsApp audio forum in his area. Sometime early this month, November he contributed to a discussion in the forum in which he exposed the double standards of the…
Gambia to take decisive steps to combat money laundering
Justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou told expert session preceding the ministerial meeting of Intergovernmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa that evidence shows former president Yahya Jammeh was involved in money…