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Gambia Owes over D1 Billion to Senelec, Karpower

By Kebba AF Touray Gambia’s Energy Minister Nani Juwara, has said the country owes over US$24 Million (approximately One Billion, Six Hundred and Thirty-Two Million...

Farmers Union Demands Investigation into Intercepted Senegalese Truck Carrying Fertiliser 

By Lamin Fatty  The National Farmers Union has condemned the attempted fertiliser smuggling incident and demanded a thorough investigation into the matter.  Foroyaa published the alleged...

Intelligence Operatives Impound Senegalese Truck Loaded with Fertilizer

By Lamin Fatty  Gambian security forces at the Yorobawol checkpoint in the Wulli West District on Friday, 29 November 2024 intercepted and impounded a Senegalese...

Gambia ranked among highest in total imports from Ecowas countries 

By Mustapha Jallow Essa Wally, the president of the Association of Customs, Clearing and Forwarding Agencies (ACCFA) has disclosed that the Gambia is ranked among...

Cries of Poor Groundnut Harvest Dominate President’s First Meeting

By Assan Bah As the President’s 2024 Meet the People’s Tour to get first-hand information from citizens across the country commences in Bantanding Wollof in...

Debt repayment for 2025 is 11 billion dalasi

By Kebba AF Touray The debt to be repaid by The Gambia in the year 2025 is 11 billion dalasi. This is indicated in the...

A drop in the ocean: exposing the will to sell Gambian...

A Gambian Immigration officer expresses will to sell a Gambian passport to a ‘Guinean national’ By Amadou Manjang It was late evening at the Serekunda Police...

November 11 Victim Families Demand Return of Loved Ones’ Remains

By Assan Bah On the 30th anniversary of the tragic November 11, 1994 incident, families of those who lost their lives in the alleged foiled...

 Task force to work with special prosecutor’s office on cases of...

By Mustapha Jallow  Isatou Jammeh, widely known as "Aisha Jammeh", the co-founder and programme officer for the country’s Victims Center, has explained to this medium...

No Plans to Degazette Salagi Forest, Says Environment Minister 

Amid Controversy over Temporary Permit By Madiba Singhateh Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, Rohey John Manjang, clarified on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, that...

Police Still Investigating Electrocution Incident in Kerr Gallo 

By Assan Bah The Gambia Police Force (GPF) is still investigating an apparent case of electrocution that happened in Kerr Galo, Lower Niumi District in...

Unfinished Business: The Reality Behind the Niumi-Hakalang Road Delay

By Assan Bah In September 2020, the Gambian government laid the foundation stone for the construction of the 86-kilometre Niumi – Hakalang road, aimed at...

Some OIC Road Project Victims Yet to Be Compensated

By Assan Bah    The Minister of Transport, Works and Infrastructure has told this medium that not everyone who was affected by the OIC roads project...

Gambian migrants in despair, 1 injured in violent confrontation in Niger

By Biran Gaye Scores of Gambian migrants are reportedly in distress as they languish in the Sahel country of Niger, with Baba Secka critically injured...

Police Charge Voice Newspaper Editor-in-Chief

The Spokesperson of the Gambia Police Force, Cadet ASP Modou Musa Sisawo has confirmed to Foroyaa that the Editor-in-Chief of The Voice Newspaper, Musa Sheriff,...

Newspaper Publishers express concern over prosecution of Voice journalists

We the Newspaper Publishers Association are concerned about the fast-developing case of the Publisher and journalist of The Voice, Musa Sheriff and Momodou Justice Darboe,...

Scores of Gambians including mother of a baby missing at sea

By Biran Gaye Scores of Gambians including a mother of a 6-month-old baby are reportedly missing and feared dead at sea. Migrant activists Yahya Sonko and...

Police detain Justice Darboe, reporter of The Voice

Justice Darboe of The Voice is currently under police custody charged with false publication and broadcasting. The detention is in relation to a publication...

Tidal Floods Destroy Sutukoba Rice Fields

By Kebba AF Touray Information received by Foroyaa on Friday, 20 September 2024 indicate that tidal flooding caused by recent heavy downpours, have destroyed rice...

NAWEC to Receive Electricity Supply from Guinea through OMVG

By Makutu Manneh After meeting with President Adama Barrow, Elhadji Lansana Fofana, the High Commissioner of the Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River...