By MUHAMMED S. BAH
The President International Award Scheme (PIA) will be organising a National Expedition and Youth Camp scheduled to take place from the 17 – 23 August, 2016. The event will be held at Fatima Senior Secondary School in Bwiam, West Coast Region (WCR).
By Saikou Suwareh Jabai
The Chairman of the Brikama Area Council (BAC) has said that the preamble of African Youth Charter recognises the fact that Africa’s greatest resource is its young populace.
By Saikou Suwareh Jabai
Saamasang Youth and Children Development Association (SaYCDA), the umbrella body responsible for the welfare of youth and children under the Saamasang Federation,
Sarjo Camara Singateh
The ambassador of Turkey to the Gambia, Ergin Soner held a press briefing yesterday, 16th of August 2016 at his office in Brufut.
Addressing the reporters, he said the reason for inviting the media to a briefing is to update them on the current situation in Turkey in the aftermath of the undesirable events that took place in his country on the night of July 15th.
The Couple
They found each other after all the tests they put upon themself as they reflected upon how their parents have punished their spouses. They decided to open up their family history first with Pa Ambi.
By Kebba Jeffang
Dr. Lamin Bolonding Bojang, the leader of the National Convention Party (NCP), told Foroyaa that there should be a caretaker 
government to lead a coalition for just 3 months in order to avoid one opposition party entrenching itself in power.
The NCP leader said this during an interview at his residence in Brikama on Wednesday, 10th August, 2016 in response to the demand for an opposition coalition being made by the young people ahead of December 1st presidential election.
By MUHAMMED S. BAH
The main political bureau of the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), situated at Kanifing South,
was allegedly set on fire by unknown mask men in the early hours of Sunday, 14 August 2016.
According to a source, the alleged arsonists entered the bureau and tied up the security men who were on duty before setting the place on fire.
By Mustapha Jallow
The former nominated National Assembly Member (NAM), Madam Tina Faal, who was earlier arraigned and granted court bail on
1 August, was re-arrested on Monday, 8 August, 2016, and held at the Mile Two prison for 8 days as of today.
Her court case before Principal Magistrate Omar Cham of the lower court in Banjul has been unable to proceed both on the 10 and 11 August 2016 due to the reported ill health of the trial magistrate, according to a family source.
Sarjo Camara-Singateh
Ms. Sara Beysolow Nyanti, the UNICEF Country Resident Representative, said her office has funded the solarization works of the cold room in Bansang, Central River Region, for the safe storage of vaccines.
By Fatoumatta K. Jallow
Women head of households and vendors in the sprawling urban settlement of Wellingara in the Kombo North District of West Coast Region (WCR) are complaining about the acute shortage of water for consumption.
By Muhammed S. Bah & Saikou Suwareh Jabai
Young people in the Gambia, on Friday, 12 August 2016, celebrated International Youth Day across the country. The celebration of 
the event took the form of march pass and a symposium in the various regions and which served as a platform for young people to discuss issues that affect their lives and find solutions for them.
It was in December 1999 that the United Nations General Assembly endorsed a resolution which declared 12 August every year as
Political parties used to wait until the campaign period before they engage the electorate in active debate on their political future. That is not the situation at the moment.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
WHAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VACILLATION IN APPOINTING AND REMOVING MINISTERS?
First the Minister of Higher Education was removed. Before the July 22 anniversary which witnessed awards for recitations he was made Minister of Religious Affairs. When the anniversary was in full bloom he was again made Minister of Higher Education while retaining the portfolio of religious affairs. We are still struggling to understand what is leading the executive to be making these contradictory decisions. It certainly does not appear logical to us.
Abdoulai G. Dibba
Abdou Jammeh commonly known as Anabi, a prison officer and a native of Kanilai, has gone missing for eight now months now.
Serreh Jarjue, the wife of Mr. Jammeh and the mother of their three children, told Foroyaa that her husband left home on a Tuesday in January, this year, to go to work at Mile Two prison on an afternoon shift but never returned home.
By Kebba Jeffang
Mr. Hamat Bah, the leader of the National Reconciliation Party (NRP), while responding to the call being made by young people
for the opposition parties in The Gambia to form an alliance to remove the APRC government at the 1st December 2016 presidential poll, said the NRP agrees for a coalition and will be submitting its proposal to the body constituted by the parties in the opposition on how to go about it.
By Kebba Jeffang
In responding to the calls made by some young people which was published in Tuesday’s Foroyaa publication for the opposition 
to form an alliance to remove the ruling APRC in the December 1 presidential poll, Mr. Halifa Sallah, the Presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Organisation Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), said the solution is for each of the opposition parties to identify its presidential candidate and then for them to jointly conduct a nationwide primary for people to select the best person who should be the coalition flag bearer.
By Mustapha Jallow
Mr. Seedy Jaiteh, a former Human Resource Director at Gamtel/Gamcel, is still languishing in detention at the Mile Two prison for 717 days as of today without charge, court appearance or access to his wives and other family members, according to a close source.
By Rohey Jadama
Justice Ogar Edward Eneji, the vacation judge at the Banjul High court has yesterday 11 August, 2016 adjourned the bail 
application of the remanded sick erstwhile Minister of Petroleum Mrs. Sira Wally Ndow-Njai and two other officials of Gambia National Petroleum Company (GNPC) till 22 August 2016 for adoption.
The other two other officials are Mr. Noah Touray, former Secretary to cabinet and Momodou O S Badjie, former Managing Director of GNPC.
By MUHAMMED S. BAH
The Gambia Press Union (GPU) on Thursday, 11 August, 2016, started a two day training of Gambian legal practitioners and law students at the University of The Gambia (UTG) on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information at the TANGO conference hall in Fajara.
