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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 […]

GTBoard Says Kotu Wetlands Allocated to Malaysian Investors

By Sanna Camara The Gambia Tourism Board confirmed it allocated the wetlands located between Bertil Herding Highway and the Kotu Beach, to a Malaysian Investor, Kaijang Holding Group Ltd. The Alkali of Manjai, Mr Amadou Gomez, whose family for almost a century, have been custodians of these lands and maintain rice fields in the wetlands, […]

How Nigeria’s First $5bn FLNG Project Will Impact Domestic, Africa, Global Economy – Julius Rone

 Africa’s natural gas reserves are estimated at 630 trillion standard cubic feet. Sadly, investment remains low in the gas space. However, in a One-on-One interview with members of the African Association of Energy Journalists and Publishers, drawn from 54 African nations, Mr. Julius Rone, Group Managing Director/CEO, UTM Offshore Limited, widely known as the ‘Gas […]

To President Barrow: Stop Arrest of Journalists, Prioritise Reforms

By Sanna Camara A Gambian human rights advocate, freedom of expression and access to information specialist has urged President Adama Barrow to stop the arrest and prosecution of journalists over public interest coverages in the media, instead focus on prioritising media law reform commitments made by the country that is rooted in various judicial rulings […]

Jammeh’s Ally Mohammad Bazzi Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Related Charges in US

By Sanna Camara US Department of Justice on Friday announced that Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conducting business with persons under US designated terrorist groups like Hizbollah in Lebanon.   Muhammad Bazzi as a former business ally of Presidet Jammeh, has been on the US Department Watch List after designation as […]