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Starfish International Celebrates International Day Of Education Focusing on AI in Learning  

By Haddy Jatta “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Education: preserving human agency in an automated world” was the theme of this year’s celebration of International Day of Education at Starfish International Academy in Lamin, a suburb outside Banjul, West Coast Region of The Gambia. The day, celebrated on 24 January 2025, had a special focus on […]

ROSATOM CEO Urges Africa to Embrace Nuclear to Overcome Energy Poverty, Industrialize

By Sanna Camara Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) this year is celebrating 80 years of existence. The industry started in 1954 with the commissioning of the first civil nuclear power plant in Russia. Rosatom Central and Southern Africa CEO, Ryan Collyer, described 2025 as “a monumental milestone” in the Russian nuclear industry, urging African […]

Africa Energy officials brief the press

$50Billion Backing from Global Partners Towards Energy Transformation

DAR ES SALAAM, January 28, 2025—Thirty African Heads of State and government today committed to concrete reforms and actions to expand access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity to power economic growth, improve quality of life, and drive job creation across the continent. The leaders pledged their commitment in a declaration during the two-day Mission 300 […]

EU Gives Gambia Another D718.2 million, Total of Over D10 Billion Since 2017

By Sanna Camara Since 2017, only through four ‘State and Resilience Building’ Budget Support Programmes, the EU has disbursed to the Government of The Gambia more than 10.2 billion Dalasi (135 Euro Million). EU ambassador Immaculada Roca I Cortés recalled: “The budget support’s goal is to accompany the Gambian Government’s efforts to consolidate a peaceful, […]

UN Special Rapporteur: Gambia’s Transitional Justice Slow, Special Court Backing Historic

By Sanna Camara In a statement released today, Friday, January 10th 2025, the Geneva based UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Bernard Duhaime has decried the Gambia’s transitional justice process as slow, and the ECOWAS decision to back the setting up of a special hybrid tribunal […]

International Trade Centre, EU, to support Gambia’s Tourism, Creative Industries

International Trade Centre, EU, to support Gambia’s Tourism, Creative Industries

(Banjul, The Gambia) Under the stewardship of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, and the Ministry Trade, Regional Integration and Employment, the International Trade Centre (ITC) has signed an agreement with the European Union (EU) to support The Gambia’s tourism and creative industries. The five-year Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) Tourism, set to launch in January […]

Africa Must Not Be Quick To Celebrate Trump’s Electoral Victory

By Sanna Camara For so many Americans on the continent, it doesn’t make much difference who wins presidential elections in the US, except for popularity and fame in the names. Yet for very obvious reasons, the coming again of Donald Trump after an interrupted second term some six years ago may not bring to the […]

Gambian-German Cooperation Goes Full Swing

By Sanna Camara The cooperation between the Republic of The Gambia and the Federal Republic of Germany is taking a new milestone as Gambia is about to open an Embassy in Berlin, a year after Germany inaugurates its own in Banjul. This development was revealed by the German Ambassador to The Gambia Mr. Klaus Botzet […]