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WOMAN ‘HIT BY BULLET’ AT BRIKAMA TRAINING RANGE’ DIED
A native of Brikama has died at Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital after she was reportedly hit by a stray bullet during military training at the firing range in Brikama Nyanbai forest.
Fatou Manneh, lady in her forties, succumbed to…
GAMBIA’S ‘IDLE YOUTHS’: THE FIGHT TO SAVE A GENERATION
One of the curses of the Yahya Jammeh’s administration is the mass exodus of young people from the country to Europe through the Mediterranean Sea.
Experts said this was largely due to the difficult economic situation the youth were faced…
CRIME HASN’T INCREASE, HOMICIDE HAS’ INTERIOR MINISTER
The interior minister Ebrima Mballow has told Kerr Fatu that their records hasn’t shown a rise in crime rates across the country but homicide has increased.
According to newspaper reports of murder, there have been at least 7 killings in…
TAX WAIVE ON RICE IMPORT ‘COST GAMBIA OVER D332M QUARTERLY
The removal of customs duty on imported rice in Gambia done since 2017 is costing the Government over D332 million ($6,809,021) in tax revenue within three months, officials have said.
Rice is the stable food in Gambia and the country could…
ECOMIG FORCES HAVE NOT TAKEN AWAY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GAF.
The Public Relations Officer of the ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia, Commander Michael A. Larpi has stated that their intervention in the Gambia has not taken away the functions and responsibility of the Gambia Armed Forces.
He…
BOY STABBED UNCLE TO DEATH IN BAKAU
One Babucarr Taal known in the ghetto as Ninjerman has stabbed his uncle to death in a Bakau neighbourhood call Painland, police have confirmed.
The deceased Cherno Jammeh, native of Sanchaba, has been reportedly stabbed two times at his…
FORMER STATE GUARD FOUND DEAD IN A WELL
Baboucarr Bah, a former state guards soldier has been found dead in a well at Madiana in Foni Kansala, the constituency representative Amul Nyassi has confirmed to Kerr Fatu.
Amul Nyassi, who was already on his way to Kansala to get more…
GAMBIA CONDEMNS MISSILE ATTACKS ON SAUDI ARABIA
Gambia’s foreign affairs ministry has strongly condemns missile attacks on Saudi Arabia by Houthi Militias which took place on 25th March, 2018.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has gathered that Iranian-made missiles were used in a bid to…
‘JAMMEH’S HIV TREATMENT WAS A SUCCESS’ -DOCTOR MBOWE
The HIV and AIDS treatment of Gambia’s ex ruler Yahya Jammeh was a success, the former director of presidential treatment programme, Dr Tamsir Mbowe, has told the Janneh Commission.
Jammeh claimed he cures AIDS with a cocktail of herbal…
GAMBIA’S KORA QUEEN TO EMBARK ON U.S DEBUT TOUR
A Gambian kora sensation, Sona Jobarteh, will embark of her first tour in United States after series of tours in Europe and Africa in 2017.
Sona, the first female kora player to have emerged from her family in the griot tradition, has…