Browsing Category
News
Gambia Gov’t endorses repatriation of Asombi’s remains
Following the death of Aja Fatou Asombi Bojang, the mother of former President Yahya Jammeh, The Gambia Government said on Wednesday that her remains will be flown home from Equatorial Guinea on Saturday 4th August, 2018.
The…
FAR contracts Dakar base to support Samo well offshore Gambia
Australian independent FAR is continuing preparations for the first exploratory well on block A2 offshore Gambia, Offshore magazine, a monthly publication covering key issues and trends relative to offshore technology, oil and gas…
International Atomic Energy Agency meets Gambian authorities
The IAEA said in a news release on its website that it has advised Gambia on strengthening regulatory infrastructure
A recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Advisory Mission to The Gambia has advised the country to strengthen…
Gambia gets first AGRIC-TECH crowd-funding online portal, Money Farm
Innovative Minds , a new Gambian-owned technology-driven start-up firm based in The Gambia with offices on Kairaba Avenue recently launched its first product dubbed Money Farm.
Money Farm is The Gambia’s first online crowdfunding…
GDC sends condolences to Jammeh over mother’s demise
The leader of the Gambia Democratic Congress has expressed condolences to country’s former leader Yahya Jammeh on the demise of his mother Aja Asombi Bojang,
Bojang died on Friday after a brief illness in Equatorial Guinea where she was…
Lawmakers urge measures to avoid president’s face on currency
The lawmakers have on Tuesday passed the Central Bank Bill 2018 to strengthen the independence of the country's apex bank.
Samba Jallow, the minority leader of the National Assembly, has asked his colleagues to put in the Central Bank…
Gambian returnees tour country to tell dangers of irregular migration
Mustapha Sallah is Secretary General of a group of migrant returnees called Youths Against Irregular Migration (YAIM).
Sallah, 32, was repatriated from Libya in April 2017, and today he thanks God he escaped death, which could…
Barrow urges tough regional stance against terrorism
President Adama Barrow has called on his colleague heads of state in ECOWAS and the East Africa Economic Community (ECCAS) to send a clear message of warning to all extremist groups that the blocs are united and resolute in fighting and…
Malaysia open arms to Gambia-born player
A Gambian international footballer, Mohamadou Sumareh, has been given the green light to play for Malaysia by the country’s football association.
New Straits Times reported on Monday that Sumareh said he is ready to don the national…
Faraba commission: Victim claims threat of sexual violence
Kaddy Touray, a native of Faraba Bantang, has told the Joof Commission that members of paramilitary forces have broken into her house threatening to have s** with her during the riot that resulted to the death of three people.
Touray…