FGRA Commissioner General Receives Honorary Award from QCell
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Commissioner General (CG) of the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), Yankuba Darboe, has been conferred an honorary award by QCell on...
NPP Condemns Attack on Journalists, Encourages Respect for Civil Liberties
The National People’s Party (NPP) learned with dismay, the allegations of assault on two journalists who were covering the swearing-in ceremony of elected local...
Newly Elected Councillors, Chairperson for Basse Area Council Sworn-In
By Lamin Fatty
Mahamadou Ceesay, the newly elected chairperson for Basse Area Council and fourteen elected Councilors, were sworn into office last Friday, 2nd May...
Gambia Calls for Peace in Senegal
The Gambia Government has issued a press release dated 4 June calling for peaceful resolution of the ongoing conflict in Senegal.
Senegal witnessed a violent...
Local Government Service Commission Demands Office Space
By Makutu Manneh
The Chairperson of the Local Government Service Commission, while appearing before the Local Government Commission of Inquiry, said the commission wants to...
Twenty-Six Thousand Gambians Estimated To Be Living With HIV
By Assan Bah
The UNAIDS has reported an estimate of nearly twenty-six thousand (26,000) of HIV patients, out of which only 14,000 people living with...
COUNCILS’ BUDGET UNREALISTIC
By Makutu Manneh
Buba Sanyang, a permanent secretary at the Ministry of Lands, Regional Government and Religious Affairs on Monday (15 May) informed the Local...
Government Fiscal Operations Amounted to Over D5 Billion in 2021
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has stated that government’s fiscal operations amounted to an overall budget deficit of five...
Six Thousand People Displaced by Casamance Conflict
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Gambia’s Minority Leader, Hon. Alhagie S. Darboe, while addressing the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja, disclosed that an estimated 6000 Senegalese...
Human Rights Commission Recommends Gov’t to Accelerate Enactment of Mental Health...
By Assan Bah
In its 2022 State of Human Rights Report, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended the Government of the Gambia to...
Gambians in Sudan Finally Arrive Home
The Government of The Gambia through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad last week informed the general public that Gambian...
Pollsters Fail to Predict Winners in Mayoral & Chairperson Elections
By Ndey Sowe & Sariba Manneh
The results of the opinion polls by CepRass did not show any candidate winning the mayoral and chairperson elections...
Senegal Gov’t and Diakaye Faction of MFDC Sign Peace Deal
By Amadou Jallow
Over 1000 men of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) faction of Diakaye have surrendered their arms at the signing...
Fifty-Four Human Trafficking Cases Registered In 2022
By Assan Bah
The National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP), according to the NHRC 2022 state of human rights report, has registered fifty-four cases...
Gov’t to Possibly Intervene on SOE’s Disparity
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Government of the Gambia, through the Ministry of Finance, has stated that variations of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) may warrant the...
Gambia to Introduce Single Window System for Trading
By Mustapha Jallow
The Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) has disclosed that they will introduce a single window system meant to address the challenges people face...
Ghost Villages in Foni as Casamance War Intensifies
By Nelson Manneh & Mustapha Jallow
Some villages along the Senegal-Gambia border have turned into ghost towns as women and young children vacate their residences....
Deficit in Pension Fund Increases to D41 Million
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Gambia Government, through the Finance Ministry, has said that deficit in the pension fund has increased from D30 million in...
Political Parties, Candidates Urged to Observe Electoral Laws
By Nelson Manneh
The Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, Alieu Momarr Njai, has call on all political parties and candidates to fully observe the...
People Flee Gunfire & Shell Strikes at Gambia-Senegal Border
By Mustapha Jallow & Nelson Manneh
Tuesday heavy gunfire and spate of shell-strikes along the border of Gambia and Senegal following a clash between Senegalese...
