The World Bank has approved a $10 million grant from the International Development Association for The Gambia to help contain the Covid-19 pandemic. The support comes as Gambia seeks support from the international community through UN agencies in Banjul to adequately control the spread of the virus in the country.[Read More…]
Year: 2020
Senegal GDP Growth To Shrink To Less Than 3% Due To Coronavirus – President
Senegal’s economic growth will fall to less than 3% in 2020 from a forecast 6.8% because of the coronavirus, President Macky Sall said on Friday. “Our sustained economic growth over several years is being brutally curbed,” Sall said in a speech, adding that the West African country’s tourism industry would[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Proclamation On Declaring Public Emergency Powers Concerning COVID-19 Outbreak
I have read the draft bill Restrictions on State of Public Emergency Powers Regulations,2020. The reading constrained me to conclude that it is a wise decision the members of the National Assembly on Thursday moved a motion for the Select Committee on Human Rights and Constitutional Matters of the hallowed[Read More…]
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