An opposition leader in the Gambia has attributed the alarming increase of Covid-19 cases in the small West African nation to lack of political will and lacklustre implementation regime of health guidelines. Mai Ahmad Fatty of the Gambia Moral Congress (GMC) said while the country’s Ministry of Health has some[Read More…]
Year: 2020
One In Every 10 Gambian Adults Is Obese
One in every 10 Gambian adults is overweight or obese, with a higher prevalence in women, a new study published in the British Medical Journal Open has revealed. It said awareness-creation, discouraging harmful beliefs on weight, and promoting healthy diets and physical activity is needed to significantly reduce the high[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: July 22nd: The Enigmatic Yahya Jammeh Legacy (Part II)
A hundred years from now, people are still going to be talking about President Yahya Jammeh. He recognized that, as a poster child, he had become a symbol in which larger social, economic, and political forces were condensed. As a person, Yahya Jammeh lived in a way to anticipate creating[Read More…]
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