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Foreign Minister calls for maritime security as he addresses 12 Gulf of Guinea countries
BANJUL, 28 April 2021
The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, has urged the Gulf of Guinea countries to synergise and strengthen efforts with a view…
Local Foundation Donates Five Refrigerators To Health Ministry
By Buba Gagigo
‘Join Hands 2 Safe A Baby’ a local foundation has donated five Blood Bank refrigerators to the Ministry of Health.
The items valued at five hundred and sixty-six thousand, five-hundred and sixty-six dalasi…
I did not consider Yahya Jammeh as my boss- Amie Bensouda
By Buba Gagigo
Amie Bensouda, Private Legal Practitioner and one-time Solicitor General as well as the Acting Attorney General under the AFPRC government has told the
Truth Commission that the Decrees she drafted for the Junta was in the…
IEC Registers 18th Political Party
By Buba Gagigo
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has announced that it has on Tuesday registered Alliance For National Re-orientation and Development (ANRD) as the 18th political party in The Gambia.
The Electoral Commission…
Jobarteh Calls Honorarium Payment ‘Unethical, Illegal, Unjustifiable and Outright Corruption’
By: Landing Ceesay
Madi Jobarteh has said that the payment of the $200, 000 honorarium by the Ministry of Justice to its staff participants in the Gambia-Myanmar case at International Court of Justice is ‘unethical, illegal,…
President arrives in Freetown, Sierra Leone
State House Media, 26th March 2021:
President Adama Barrow arrived in Sierra Leone on Tuesday as the Guest of Honour at the country’s 60th Independence Anniversary. President Barrow will be joined by other West African leaders, amongst…
Gambia Becomes Third African Country To Eliminate Trachoma
By Buba Gagigo
The Gambia Ministry of Health has announced that the country is now ranked as the third African Country that eliminated the Trachoma disease blamed for the blindness of almost 2 million people worldwide.
Reacting…
NAM Ceesay Says Government Not Committed To Diaspora Voting
By: Landing Ceesay
National Assembly Member for Serekunda West Madi N.K Ceesay said the Barrow government is not interested or committed to seeing Gambians living overseas vote in the 2021 Presidential election.
He said this in his…
Press Release: The Gambia Government Reviews Civil Service Allowances and Salaries
Press Release Dated: 26th April, 2021
Re: The Gambia Government Reviews Civil Service Allowances and Salaries
Conscious of the impact of low salaries and allowances of civil servants especially under the Covid-19 pandemic that…
Former Justice Minister Likens Yahya Jammeh To Pharaoh
By: Landing Ceesay
Fafa Edrisa M’Bai, the first Attorney General and Minister of Justice under the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC), likened former President Yahya Jammeh to the Egyptian Pharaoh.
He compared the…