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The Minister of Youths and Sports has rescinded the decision of the National Sports Council which suspended three executive members of the Gambia Football Federation, Kerr Fatou has learned. The NSC has issued a statement on Tuesday…

Gambian kora player Sona Jobarteh has been announced as part of the line-up for the 2018 World Music Festival Chicago, reported Music In Africa. Now in its 20th edition, the festival has been described as “the annual celebration of…

Yahya Jammeh who now lives in exile in Equatorial Guinea faces several allegations of torture, killings and theft of public funds.  A film done by an international human rights group, Amnesty International, on how Gambians ousted former…

A new Gallup poll finds 72 percent of Gambians approve of Barrow's leadership to date. Coming off more than two decades of authoritarian rule, roughly three-fourths of Gambians approve of new President Adama Barrow's leadership and…

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Gambian authorities to not allow violence against journalists to go unpunished and, in particular, to investigate the attack on two journalists with the public radio and TV broadcaster GRTS…

The Gambia Democratic Congress has issued a press statement on Tuesday announcing that it has accepted the resignation of its former deputy party leader, Yusupha Jaiteh, and seven others. Eight members of the party have resigned couple…

Article 19 is an international human rights organization based in Dakar that fights for the protection of peoples’ rights to freedom of expression. The attention of Article 19 West Africa was drawn to the unfortunate attack on Saturday…

Gambia’s basic and secondary education ministry said on Tuesday that the analysis that most people have made on the recent WASSCE results have been reliant on an inaccurate data. Mohammed Jallow, permanent secretary at the ministry of…

Gambia’s foreign minister has held discussions with the deputy prime minister of Kuwait on bilateral issues, country’s news agency, KUNA, reported. Kuwait’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah…

It has come to the notice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad of the Republic of The Gambia that The Standard newspaper had published in its issue of Monday, 30th July 2018, an opinion piece in…