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Press Release

President Barrow Visits Central Abattoir Ahead of Eid

State House, Banjul, 12 August, 2016 - His Excellency President Adama Barrow on early Sunday afternoon paid an unexpected visit to the central abattoir...

MoFA Clarifies calls for the closure of Gambian Embassy in Dakar

It has come to the notice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad of the Republic of The Gambia that The...

APRC Condemns Assault On GRTS Crew

  APRC Press Release, 5th August, 2018 : It has come to the notice of the National Executive Committee of the Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and...

GPU Condemns Attack On GRTS News Crew ...

Sunday August 05: Fajara: The Gambia Press Union, GPU, hereby condemns in the strongest terms, the attack on Saturday on the GRTS News Crew, during...

GPU Congress Slated For August 31

August 1, 2018: Fajara: The Executive Board of the Gambia Press Union, GPU, has scheduled the triennial Congress of the Union for August 31st...

US To Re-establish Military Relation With Gambia

State House, Banjul, 25 July, 2018 - H.E. Ambassador Alexander Laskaris, deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Engagement, United States Africa Command (AfriComm), has...

Gambia Poised For A Digital Revolution

Gunjur, West Coast Region, 26th July, 2018 - His Excellency President Adama Barrow and his Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure, Ebrima Sillah, have...

Agric Minister Outlines Plans To Transform Agriculture

Ngain Sanjal, North Bank Region, 18 July 2018 - The Barrow administration has told farmers that measures are being instituted to do a comprehensive...

President reveals Banjul-Barra Bridge Plan

The President of the Republic Mr. Adama Barrow has told the people of Niumi that his government has developed specific projects that it will...

President’s Office Briefs Media on Pertinent Issues

Below is the full text of the press release from the Office of the Presient: ENVIRONMENT The operations of the Fishmeal plant in Sanyang has been...

World Population Day Commemorated

By: Kebba AF Touray Today is World Population Day and to mark the occasion, the National Population have convened a press briefing, yesterday at its...

Director General Prof Stanley Okolo Message on WAHO Day

9 July 2018 Fellow West Africans, I bring you greetings from the West African Health Organisation, WAHO, the specialized institution of the Economic Community of West...

Nigerian ECOMIG Peacekeeper Dies

By Mustapha Jallow The ECOMIG Mission in The Gambia has announced on Thursday that one of its personnel, Abubakar Abdullahi, died in Banjul on Wednesday,...

Swearing-In Of Members Of The Faraba Commission

STATEHOUSE, BANJUL, 4th JULY 2018 H.E. President Adama Barrow will preside over the swearing-in ceremony for members of the Commission of Inquiry appointed earlier to...

President Adama Barrow reshuffles his Cabinet

STATEHOUSE, BANJUL, 29 JUNE 2018 - Effective today, 29 June 2018, the Cabinet of the Republic of the Gambia has been reshuffled as follows: Vice President...

“No Evidence Of Contaminated Rice In The Gambia”

The Food Safety and Quality Authority (FSQA), is dismayed by the widespread speculations about the presence of contaminated ‘dana rice’ in the country, and...

Foreign Minister Meets Cuban Director Of Sub-Saharan Africa

The Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, His Excellency Lazero Herrera Martinez, and the Cuban Director of Sub-Saharan Africa, Her Excellency Gisela Garcia Rivera,...

‘Beakanyang’ Deeply Troubled ...

 ‘Beakanyang’ is deeply concerned and troubled over recent incidents in the community of Faraba Banta in the West Coast Region. The June 18th 2018 incident...

Joint Press Statement By Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International

20 June 2018 Gambia: Full Investigation Of Anti-Mining Protesters’ Deaths Required Inquiry, Officers’ Arrests Positive First Steps The Gambian authorities should thoroughly investigate the alleged excessive use...

Faraba occurrence my ‘saddest day’ – President Barrow

STATE HOUSE BANJUL, 19 JUNE 2018 - President Adama Barrow has described the Faraba incident, which led to the killing of three civilians, as...