With a population of 1.9 million, the Gambia is faced with rising food insecurity, poverty and malnutrition, despite a promising environment for improved growth, stability and partnerships, a World Food Programme country report reveals. According to the report, 48 per cent of the Gambian population lives below the national poverty[Read More…]
Year: 2018
Anglophone West Africa’s Brightening Economic Prospects
The economic forecast for Anglophone West Africa is looking brighter according to analysis by Ecobank’s research team in the newly published Anglophone West Africa section of its flagship financial website, AfricaFICC . Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, is at last moving out of recession, Ghana’s growth continues to be strong, and[Read More…]
Bakary Badjie: My Plans To Reform Gambia’s Kanifing Municipal Council
The Reform Agenda is intended to identify the human, institutional and process challenges confronting the Council in order to address them as a means to further empower KMC. It will constitute various changes and strengthening of various systems, processes, and tools as means to reinforcing the human and institutional capacity[Read More…]