Thursday, May 15, 2025

General News

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...

Mayor Bensouda Boasts of Fighting Corruption, Financial Leakages in Council

By Sariba Manneh Talib Ahmed Bensouda, incumbent Mayor of Kanifing Municipality, on Saturday said he was able to fight corruption and eliminate leakages during his...

Government’s ‘Wasteful’ Spending on Covid-19 Food Relief  

By: Kebba AF Touray The Gambia Government’s food relief package meant to support households during the peak of Covid-19, resulted in damages of seven hundred...

Gambian Association in Turkey Speaks, Turkish Ambassador Explains

By: Kebba AF Touray Officials of the Gambian Association in Turkey dubbed ‘the Real Responders’ have stated that the situation of their countrymen in Turkey...

WCO Pledges to Support Customs in Tackling Illegal Trade

By Mustapha Jallow Dr Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organisation (WCO), Friday said they will continue giving support to regional customs, especially...

President Barrow Inaugurates 30kV Power Line

President Adama Barrow, on Saturday, 6th May launched a 30KV power line covering LaminKoto to Diabugu-Batapa. Delivering a statement at the inaugural ceremony, Barrow recollected...