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Gambian cashew exporter partners with ‘back-way’ returnees
Farimang Manneh, the CEO of a leading cashew nut exporting company in The Gambia is using his successes in entrepreneurship to set up a scheme that would motivate the country’s back-way returnees to engage in cashew production and export.…
UDP national pres. congratulate Darboe on appointment as VP
The National President of the United Democratic Party, Dembo Bojang, has issued a statement congratulating Ousainou Darboe on his appointment as the vice president of The Gambia.
Bojang outlines the efforts that were done by Darboe in…
Gambia to investigate allegations of foreigners in security
Gambia’s national security adviser and head of the security sector reforms committee has told journalists on Wednesday that they are about to start a forensic audit to weed out non-Gambians who have reportedly been registered in the…
Commission asks 67 to declare assets
The Standard has sourced a document titled: “List of Persons To Be Issued The Assets Declaration Form” from the Janneh Commission.
The list has been making the rounds since weekend and contained the names of 67 persons, all of whom with…
‘Media will never be silenced again’ – Pre. Barrow
President Adama Barrow has challenged Gambians journalists to foster transparency in government by reporting on its activities as much as possible.
Speaking from Farafenni, a major town in North Bank, the President said his…
Baddibou tour: Health minister promises improved healthcare delivery
Dr. Isatou Touray, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, has promised natives of Baddibou a better health care delivery as the presidential tour ends its second day.
At meetings in Kerewan and Njaaba Kunda in Lower and Central…
Gambia gets a new national coach
The Gambia Football Federation has announced the hiring of Tom Saintfiet, a Belgian national, as the Senior National Team Coach of the Gambia for a period of nine months.
According to the GFF, in a statement published in their website on…
The last hospitalized Faraba victim airlifted to Dakar
Bubacarr Darboe was reportedly shot at his thigh breaking his bone
The last victim of the Faraba standoff between police and natives has been evacuated to Dakar from Edward Francis Small Hospital.
The spokesperson of the country’s main…
New information minister affirms commitment to media reforms
By Mammy Saidykhan
Ebrima Sillah, the newly appointed Minister for Information and Communication Infrastructure (MoICI) has in his first public engagement expressed his commitment to ongoing media sector reforms in the country.
Sillah…
VP Darboe met Indonesian VP over OIC matters
The governments of Indonesia and Gambia forge cooperation in the protocol and security fields to host the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit in Gambia in November 2019.
As a host of the summit, which will be attended by…