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Letter from Muhammed Ceesay, Project Manager, Activista/Gambia

On CLIMATE CHANGE A lethal product of Capitalism Final Part Scientific timelines on global temperatures indicate that, 2020, five years after the Paris Agreement, was one of the...

GPU, CSO Coalition welcome the passing of Access to Information Bill...

The Gambia Press Union and the Civil Society Coalition on Access to Information welcome the passing of the Access to Information Bill 2021 by...

Youth Parliament Tasks Government, Legislature to Revive Draft Constitution

By: Kebba AF Touray The National Youth Parliament (NYP) has tasked the Gambia Government and the National Assembly to take steps and explore genuine efforts...

Interior Minister Says Gambia Remains Hostile Ground for Drug Trafficking

By: Kebba AF Touray Yankuba J.N. Sonko, the Minister of Interior on Friday 25th June 2021, disclosed that the Gambia will remain a hostile ground...

Retired GRA Staff Awarded Certificates in Honour of Their Services

By Mustapha Jallow The Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) on Tuesday awarded four of its retired staff with certificates, cash and gifts, in honor of their...

Gambia’s House of Fashion Prepares to Showcase Designs of Gambian Tailors

With Makutu Manneh Welcome to another edition of the Arts and Culture, the Column that seeks to promote Arts, Music and Culture in the Gambia....

World Food Program Hands Over Four Automated Weather Stations to Government

By: Kebba AF Touray The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) with funding from the European Union, on Wednesday 30th June 2021, handed over four...

UTG Management Responds To Staff Association Admidst Strike Action

When the UTG Staff Association threatened to go on strike on Thursday, management issued a statement published below but this did not deter the...

NALA Executive Secretary Responds To Allegations By Legal Staff

By Kebba Secka Ahmed Kemo Ceesay, Executive Secretary of National Agency for Legal Aid in a telephone conversation on Thursday July 1st refuted some of...

7 Arrested Manduar Youth Released

By Mustapha Jallow Seven (7) youth of Manduar were finally released on bail from the Brikama Police station on 30th June and 1st July 2021,...

IEC Finally Allows Voters’ Registration In Manduar-Touba

By Mustapha Jallow Officials of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) accompanied by Police commissioners on Thursday allowed attestation for voters’ registration to take-place in Manduar-Touba...

Gambia University Staff Continue Sit-Down Strike

By Yankuba Jallow Staff working at the University of the Gambia (UTG) have started a sit-down strike on Thursday in demand of welfare and related...

NEVER AGAIN: The Manifesto of an Unlikely Candidate (Part Three)

By Baba Galleh Jallow Fellow Gambians, It is high time that together we all loudly say enough is enough and Never Again to the chronically poor...

Shelter Afrique, Africa’s finance and housing ministers issue joint declaration on...

The Yaoundé Declaration aims to tackle the continent’s affordable housing crisis Yaoundé, Cameroon: July 1st, 2021 – African Ministers and Heads of Delegation of Ministries in charge...

How To Restore Peace In Manduar

The two sides of Manduar had never been divided. They walked shoulder to shoulder to bring about change in 2016. They have no reason...

Can A Court Inquire Into IEC’S Decision To Authorise The Mayoress...

QUESTION OF THE DAY According to section 127 of the Elections Act, “(1) Where and issue arises relating to electoral matters which is not addressed by...

UTG Management’s Response Staff Association

The hue and cry over the advertisement regarding the position of UTG Vice Chancellor has reached its crescendo. It is quite baffling that a...

Gambian Refugees in Senegal Ask Government to Respect Their Rights

By Yankuba Jallow Residents of Kerr Mot Hali, who are currently in exile, have renewed their call to the Gambia Government to respect their rights...

Calm Restored in Manduar

By Abdoulie Fatty The situation at Manduar village in West Coast Region has calmed now as mediation efforts by government and IEC officials and villagers...

Villagers of Busura Win Case against Alkalo of Talokoto

By Louise Jobe / Yankuba Jallow On 1st June 2021, the West Coast Regional Group Tribunal presided over by three Chiefs, decided in favour of...