“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It is now forty years: the struggle for the Southern Senegalese region of Cassamance has been on. Forty years of bloodshed. Forty years of negotiations. Forty years, and no political solution. Yet, the rebel forces had never launched an attack on sovereign territory of The Gambia. Never had we feel in anyway more threatened for […]
The outgoing US Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of The Gambia, Mr R. Carl Paschall, lamented in a farewell message that many democratic reforms promised in 2016 by President Adama Barrow still remain undone. “I am encouraged that in his post-election news conference, the President underscored his commitment to continuing the democratic reforms promised in […]
