The Gambia Donor Conference in Brussels raised 1.45 billion euros in pledges to fund the NDP. The NDP costs 2.4 billion dollars. This means with this pledge at least 1.6 billion dollars are secured. In today’s official Central Bank exchange rate of D56.6 to 1 euro, the EU pledge will[Read More…]
Year: 2018
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: President Barrow Must Be Resolute In The Crusade Against Graft
The Brussels Donors Conference on the Gambia, the European Union recorded Euro 1.45 billion in PLEDGES at the Donors Conference for the next three years. The European Union will be contributing Euro 140 million in grants, in addition to the Euro 225 million already committed. The European Union fully supports[Read More…]
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Loving The Crop Of Political Activists
I love the crop of “Political Activists” that we have on Social Media. I know names of people like and many others I don’t know. When they speak, they make headlines, they are opinion spinners without doubt. Some of them are perceived as “anti-government” and hands off to those perceived[Read More…]