(JollofNews) – Gambian refugee Bakary Jatta got his first taste of life as a professional footballer on Wednesday as he trained with Hamburg. The 18-year-old striker was put through his paces during the session at their Switzerland training camp as he looked to impress his new team-mates and manager Bruno[Read More…]
Year: 2016
Gambia: MRC Awarded Grand Challenge Explorations Grant
(JollofNews) – The Disease Control and Elimination Theme of MRC Unit the Gambia has been awarded a Grand Challenge Exploration grant, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to pursue an innovative global health and development research project using medical-detection dogs to identify people with malaria parasites.[Read More…]
Tourism: Gambling On Gambia
(JollofNews) – As we shivered in the drab weather, the question in the Nichol house was: ‘Where do we go for some guaranteed sunshine without crossing half the planet?’ A few years ago, the answer may have been Egypt or Tunisia. But due to recent attacks at tourist resorts and[Read More…]