2022 Archives

10
May

Europe Day: Ambassador Pampaloni Announces EU to Support Banjul Ports Expansion, River Transport

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EU Ambassador to The Gambia last evening announced that as part of a newly-launched Global Gateway, a whooping EUR 300 billion funding is to be mobilised between 2022 to 2027, in which The Gambia will be supported with up to EURO 360 million in its sea port expansion, and developing river transportation further upstream, among […]

15
Apr

Standard Chartered Bank Gambia will continue operations normally

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The Central Bank of The Gambia has assured customers of Standard Chartered Bank (Gambia Ltd.) that the divestiture news announced from the commercial bank’s headquarters in London will not affect their monies as the bank will continue operating normally in the country. In a press release issue. Today, Central Bank said the bank’s customers and […]

26
Mar

Father Thanks Ambassador for Return of Son Now Employed Baker

mmglobalnews / 3 years
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“I understand that this project has helped in keeping your children at home. Migration is a very difficult business and very dangerous. What we want with this project (with the IOM and other partners) is to help the people find a way to work and live in their country where they have all the family […]

11
Mar

Banjul Conference to Discuss Untapped African financial market

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The Gambia will play host to the 8th African Islamic Finance Summit (AIF), a platform to African think-tank to discuss innovative financial inclusion strategies for more development in Africa. According to a press release from the organizers, the conference is the gathering of financial industries like banking, Insurance, Islamic microfinance, funds management, agri/rural finance, regulatory […]

03
Mar

3rd ‘Jungler’ Faces Indictment Abroad

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A press release from Swiss NGO Trial International, and International Commission of Jurists today revealed that a third member of Yahya Jammeh’s “death squad” commonly referred to as Junglers, stands indicted in Germany for crimes committed under the 22 years’ dictatorship regime in The Gambia. Former Interior Minister Ousman Sonko faces multiple count charges in […]

01
Mar

‘It is Now, More than Ever…’ EU Vice President calls it ‘unjust wars’

mmglobalnews / 3 years
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The EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission has argued that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has turned the rules of the world order and the time to act is now. With this war on Ukraine, the world will never be the same again. It is now, more […]

23
Feb

IEC’s Transparency, Capacity, Key in EU Observers’ Recommendations

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“We recommend that they be published on IEC website, desegregated by polling stations and per constituency. People have a right to access such a vital information. That’s something to be done retrospectively for the last election and should be on the agenda for the forthcoming election.” The European Union Election Observation Mission told journalists yesterday […]

17
Feb

Toufah Jallow Retells Stories of Rape, Sexual Abuse in ‘Justifying Survival’

mmglobalnews / 3 years
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Fatoumatta Jallow was a first year college student in The Gambia when she fell into the entrapment of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh, whose obsession with beauty queens led to him personally financing many local and international pageantries in The Gambia. In most of these pageantries, Jammeh personally presided over them as “Chief Guest of Honour”. Yahya […]

15
Feb

Scale of Killings Under Jammeh ‘Quite Serious’

mmglobalnews / 3 years
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The scale of killings, disappearances and torture that occurred under the regime of ex-president Yahya Jammeh became a key theme of the just concluded cartoon exhibition by The Hague based Journalists for Justice (JFJ) and a Gambian based civil society group, Women Association for Victims Empowerment (WAVE). The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission established […]

10
Feb

Transnational Crimes: EU Comes to Gambia’s Aid

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The European Union Delegation in The Gambia today announced that it is prepared to leverage its maritime security apparatus in support to The Gambia’s efforts in containing transnational crimes in the waters of West Africa’s smallest mainland country. In a press release sent this afternoon, EU Ambassador to the Gambia is quoted as saying that […]