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Deputies Defer Sittings for Proper Scrutiny of Revised Budget

By: Kebba AF Touray Members of the National Assembly have deferred sittings of yesterday Monday 9th December 2019, for them to properly scrutinize the revised...

Councillors Finally Adopt Basse Area Council’s 2020 Budget

By Lamin Fatty Councilors of the Basse Area Council (BAC) on Thursday 5th December 2019, adopted the regions 2020 budget estimates after it was initially...

Human Rights Commission Marks Human Rights Day

December 10 is observed every year as Human Rights Day. This is the date the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal...

Barra Alkalo In Police Custody

By Makutu Manneh & Mustapha Jallow Gambian Police have on Monday, 9th December invited the Alkalo of Barra, Alagie Faye for questioning at the Police headquarter...

Are The Gambian Authorities Ready To Receive The Returnees From Mauritania?

QUESTION OF THE DAY The share number of Gambian youth who came from surrounding villages in Barra to take their boats towards Europe confirms that...

Constitutional review: Is The Nation Decided Or Divided?

Constitutional review in a republic is about consensus building and not about casting aspersions and recriminations. Each sovereign citizen has a right to protection...

“I represented the police in the witch-hunting exercise,” says Ex-Operations Director

By Yankuba Jallow Dismissed police commissioner Omar Jawo has admitted that he participated in the arrest of residents of Barra and Essau during the 2009...

Residents of KM Demand Social Services from President Barrow

By Makutu Manneh Residents of the Kanifing Municipality (KM) have on Saturday, 7th December told President Adama Barrow that they want better road networks, proper...

Mauritania Shipwreck: Gov’t Repatriates over 200 Irregular Migrants

By Momodou Jarju Before going to press, the Communications Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saikou Ceesay, told Foroyaa that over 200 irregular migrants...

Families of Deceased Migrants Call on Government to Provide Employment

By Makutu Manneh Families of Gambian youths who lost their lives at the recent incident in the Mauritanian coast have called on the Government to...

Gov’t Spokesperson ‘clarifies’ Barrow’s Statement About Jammeh

Press Release Dated: 7th December, 2019 Banjul, The Gambia—Following widespread and conflicting reports alleging that President Barrow has assured his predecessor, President Yaya Jammeh,...

Three Years Jotna to Receive Permit Latest Tuesday – says chairman...

By Mustapha Jallow Gambia Inspector General of Police, Mamut Jobe, Sunday confirmed that his office will issue permit to Operation Three Years Jotna for them...

Speech By H.E Adama Barrow, President Of The...

BROADCAST DATE: 7th DECEMBER 2019 Fellow Gambians, I join you in mourning the tragic death of our youth off the coast of Mauritania last Wednesday,...

Gov’t receives $183 million out of total pledges of $1800 million

By Kebba AF Touray Finance and Economic Affairs Minister, Mambury Njie informed legislators that out of US$ 1.8 billion pledged by various development partners at...

Inadequate Funds Thwart Performance of National Team Youth, Sport Minister

By: Kebba AF Touray Hadrammeh Sidibeh, the Youth and Sport Minister this week told Lawmakers that lack of adequate funds over the period, has thwarted...

Why Is The Political Scene Changing By The Day?

QUESTION OF THE DAY Political parties are mushrooming while the political situation is being defined by a growing political rivalry between former political associates and...

58 ‘Backway’ Hustlers Did Not Make It

Barra and its surroundings were privy to the fact that boats carrying young people heading towards greener pastures were being loaded. It is now...

Interior Ministry Committed to Mitigate Issuance of Laissez-Passer

By Kebba AF Touray Yankuba Sonko the Minister of the Interior has told Lawmakers that his Ministry is committed to mitigating the issuance of Laissez-passer...

GTU Urge Schools to Continue Lessons

By Ndey Sowe The Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU) has urged Schools to continue with their lessons. The Union made this appeal in response to allegations...

First Hearings in Myanmar Genocide Case New Q&A Explains Gambia’s Action...

(The Hague, December 6, 2019) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will hold its first hearings on Gambia’s genocide case...