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Center for Women’s Rights and Leadership Launches SheInspires to Celebrate Emerging Gambian Women Leaders on International Women’s Day 2025

To mark International Women’s Day 2025, the Center for Women’s Rights and Leadership (CWRL) is proud to launch SheInspires, a flagship initiative spotlighting outstanding and emerging Gambian women leaders. These women have defied the odds, demonstrated resilience and perseverance to secure their place at the decision-making table, breaking barriers in their respective fields. In this […]

Government Must Extend Franchise to Diaspora Gambians: Human Rights Commission

The Gambia’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is not please with efforts by government to [dis]enfranchise diaspora Gambian – a group considered the eight region of the country, comprising at least 200, 000 Gambians, contributing over 50 per cent to the country’s gross domestic product, yet unqualified to vote in elections. In a statement released […]

Community Advocate Urges Government’s Construction of 4-Star Resort in Barra

A community youth advocate from Niumi has made a strong call on the Gambian authorities to continue the construction works on the much-awaited four-star DK Jawara Resort in Barra. Omar Genius Jammeh, as fondly called among peers, says this initiative has rekindled great hopes in the people of Niumi, as project hold much promise for […]

Of Cultural Heritage Preservation and HerMaP Gambia

By Sanna Camara Before the coming of televisions to the family sitting rooms and computer tablets or cell phones connected to wireless internet technologies or data from GSM operators, bedtime stories were told in the form of folklores – triumph of heroes and sheroes in stories of valour and adventures that irk little children’s imaginations […]

Bar Association Calls for Urgent Set Up of Special Tribunal for Gambia

By Sanna Camara Neneh Cham, President of the Gambia Bar Association has called on the government of The Gambia to follow through with the process of establishing a special tribunal for accountability and justice for the crimes of grave human rights violations committed under the 23-year rule of former President Yahya Jammeh in Gambia. According […]

Mali’s Energy Deficit Forces High Dependence on Fossil Fuel

By Sanna Camara The energy supply deficit in Mali is a growing concern for development experts, as country grapples with high energy poverty that forces majority of its rural population to rely on fossil fuel sources for basic needs like daily cooking for tens of thousands of households. The African Energy Summit held in Tanzania […]

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 […]