Browsing Category
News
Gambia— UNESCO sign project to use drones to limit the impact of natural disasters
According to Gambian authorities, Riverine Flooding has affected a population of 57,912 in The Gambia in the past four years.
The Gambia and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have signed a project…
Gambian publishers reject NIA background checks for State House correspondents
The Newspaper Publishers’ Association of The Gambia, the umbrella body of all the newspaper publishers, have issued a strong statement rejecting screening and background checks for State House press corps.
The Association is the latest…
GPU Communique on State House New Press Accreditation Policy
On Saturday, March 30, the Gambia Press Union (GPU) convened an emergency general meeting in response to a new policy by the State House requiring journalists to undergo security screening at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) for…
IFJ joins calls to boycott NIA background checks for journalists
The International Federation of Journalists -affiliated Gambia Press Union (GPU) has called on journalists not to comply with new rules imposed on journalists seeking to cover events in the Presidency.
The GPU confirmed that the Office…
Jammeh stole billions of dalasis, Janneh Commission found
The investigation into the financial dealings of the former President Yahya Jammeh has found him to be acutely corrupt.
Gambia’s justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou said on Friday that country’s former president Yahya Jammeh has stolen…
Life changing moment for TRRC witness Mafugie Sonko
A witness before the Truth, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (TRRC) who was jailed for 9 years without trial has been given D175, 000 and a plot of land on Thursday to rebuild his life.
Mafugie Sonko, a private Gambian soldier…
RURAL YOUTH AWARDS 2019: GYIN Gambia receives over 200 applicants for 10 awards categories’
By Mamadou Edrisa Njie
As the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia chapter’s planned 3rd Edition of the Rural Youth Awards 2019 drew closer, the National Organizing Committee (NOC) have received about two hundred and five (205)…
‘Day of Koro’s murder, Yankuba had burns on his uniform’
Ensa Mendy, a former bodyguard to former Junta member Yankuba Touray has confessed to participating in the killing of two soldiers at Fajara Barracks on the orders of Sanna Sabally.
According to his testimony, following the July 1994…
‘Guards at Touray’s residence sent on wild goose chase on night of Koro’s murder’
One of the guards at Yankuba Touray’s residence has told the Truth Commission on Thursday that they were sent on a ‘wild goose chase’ the night former finance minister Koro Ceesay was murdered.
According to various testimonies before…
Pres. Barrow calls for unity in Cabinet as VP, 4 other ministers take oath
Barely three weeks ago, the President made a major cabinet reshuffle sacking the leader of his former United Democratic Party, Ousainou Darboe, and two other ministers from the party.
As he presided over the swearing in of four cabinet…