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Coronavirus Safety And Reporting Guide For Journalists

The people need more accurate, reliable information now more than ever. As the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, they would rely on journalists to...

Gambia Struggles to Enforce Recommended Preventive Measures as Coronavirus Enters the...

By: Kebba AF Touray As fears of coronavirus (COVID-19), continued to creep in the minds of the globe, strengthening of precautionary measures, have become an...

Halifa Sallah Sensitizes Youth On The Effects Of Covid-19

By Kebba Secka Halifa Sallah, the National Assembly member for Serekunda Constituency on Saturday March 21st 2020, sensitized youth groups within London Corner, on the...

Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Urges for Concerted Efforts against COVID-19

By: Kebba AF Touray The Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, has called on countries to make concerted efforts to...

PDOIS Ward Councillors Distribute Hand Sanitizers Amid Coronavirus Scare

Wards Councillors of the People's Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) in Serrekunda together with their party's Secretary General Halifa Sallah, on Saturday...

Gov’t plans to decentralize Coronavirus test

By Ndey Sowe Dr. Ahmadou Lamin Samateh on Wednesday, 25th March disclosed that the government wants to decentralize the Coronavirus test so that they are...

Covid-19 Volunteer Response Team Call for Rural Sensitization

By Nelson Manneh The Covid-19 Volunteer Response Team yesterday called on Government to massively sensitize the rural population as most of the people in that...

177 PEOPLE NOW ON QUARANTINE, First batch to be released...

By Ndey Sowe Dr Ahmadou Lamin Samateh- Minister of Health said: “currently, we have 177 people on quarantine in various hotels and they are all...

‘Every Citizen Has an Obligation to the City’

By Nelson Manneh Rohey Malick Lowe, the Mayor of the City Council of Banjul said every citizen of the Gambia owes an obligation to protect...

Gambia Confirms third case of Coronavirus

By Ndey Sowe & Lamin Fatty (Basse) The Gambia has on Tuesday 24th March, 2020 confirmed the third case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. This...

Director Of Health Promotion Says 133 People Are Under Quarantine

By Ndey Sowe Modou Njai- Director of Health Promotion at the Ministry of Health has told journalists that one hundred and thirty- three people are...

Health Minister Urges Absconded Individuals from Quarantine to Return or Face...

By: Kebba AF Touray Gambia’s Health Minister Dr. Ahmad Lamin Samateh, has warned those individuals who have absconded from quarantine, to report themselves to their...

Niamina East Lawmaker Calls for Baseline Implementation of COVID-19 Preventive Recommendations

By: Kebba AF Touray Omar Ceesay, the National Assembly Member for Niamina East, has called for a timeline in the implementation of the preventive measures...

Gambia Records First Death Case of Coronavirus

By Ndey Sowe The Government of the Gambia through the Ministry of Health has confirmed the first death from the Coronavirus (COVID 19) in the...

Health Ministry pushes for suspension of all congregational prayers

By Ndey Sowe The Ministry of Health wants the Executive to order for the suspension of all congregational prayers in the country. This request came after...

‘Young People Are Not Invisible To Coronavirus’ WHO Director General

MUHAMMED S. BAH During his latest press briefing to update the World on his Organisation’s response to Covid-19 pandemic on Friday 20th March 2020, Dr....

NHRC Gives Nine Recommendations In Fight Against Covid-19

By Momodou Jarju The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has joined the fight against the spread of Covid-19, a deadly virus ruining the lives of...

Africa Registers Seventeen Deaths from Covid-19, As the continent’s registers 633...

By MUHAMMED S. BAH Information coming from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Africa indicates that the death toll for coronavirus victims on...

ECA Estimates Billion Dollar Losses For Africa Due To Covid-19 Impact

By Rohey Jadama The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned that the unfolding coronavirus crisis could seriously dent Africa’s already stagnant growth...

‘Wash Your Hands and Avoid Public Gatherings,’ Steve Tells Gambians

By Sulayman Bah United Arab Emirates-based Scorpion Bubacarr Trawally has urged Gambians at home to practice personal hygiene in the wake of the sweeping Coronavirus. In...