President Adama Barrow of the Gambia Tuesday presided over his administration’s seventh cabinet meeting focussing on governance, defence, agriculture, investment, food security, communication and the promotion of justice. Vice President Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang presented the 2018-2027 Civil Service Reform Programme, highlighting, among other areas, capacity building for civil servants to enhance[Read More…]
Year: 2017
Gambia: Child Right Advocates Outraged by Child Video Insulting Former President
(JollofNews) – Child right advocates in The Gambia has condemned a video purportedly filmed by an adult showing a minor insulting the country’s former president Yahya Jammeh. In the video circulated on the whatsapp social app, showed the minor girl, apparently in her less than ten years insulting Mr. Jammeh,[Read More…]
US Arrests Ex-Senegal’s Foreign Minister, Hong Kong’s Ex-Home Secretary In Africa Bribery Schemes
(JollofNews) – The bribery scheme was hatched in the halls of the United Nations in New York and spanned several continents. Chi Ping Patrick Ho, Hong Kong’s former Home Secretary, and Cheikh Gadio, a one-time foreign minister of Senegal, plotted to bribe high-level African officials to secure business rights for[Read More…]