The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has appointed The Gambia’s Foreign Minister, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, as Member of the Advisory Board of UNITAR – Division for Multilateral Diplomacy. The two-year term takes effect from January 2022 to December 2024. UNITAR is a key resource within the United[Read More…]
Year: 2022
Madi Jobarteh: Why Is Gen. Saul Badgie Not Arrested And Court Martialed?
When generals Umpa Mendy and Ansumana Tamba returned from Equatorial Guinea they were arrested and put to a court martial in 2019. But they got freed from desertion charges because they claimed they were asked by Gen. Badgie to accompany the Tinpot Dictator into self imposed exile. These two generals[Read More…]
GFF Exco Member Appointed In AFCON Assignment
Lt. Col. Musa Jammeh will be amongst a host of African football authorities on assignment at this month’s Total Energies Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. Known by his sobriquet Falcons, Jammeh, an Executive member of The Gambia Football Federation (GFF) and a FIFA security liaison officer for the GFF,[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: I Ask For Your Support: I Am “Standing” For Parliament
Friends and family, enemies and detractors, pretenders and Facebook spy-friends, after careful consideration and a thorough analysis of the political landscape, I have decided, with utmost humility, and with a profound sense of a burden, to seek your votes in the upcoming parliamentary elections. I have just realized that our[Read More…]
Construction Begins At DP World’s $1.1 Bln Port In Senegal
Senegal President Macky Sall on Monday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a $1.13 billion deep-water port being developed by Dubai’s state-owned port operator DP World at Ndayane, around 50 km (31 miles) south of the capital Dakar. DP World Dakar, a joint venture between the Dubai-based logistics[Read More…]
Full Fixtures As Gambia Gets Set For African Cup Of Nations
Barring any last minute change, the Gambia is set to be featured in its first ever Africa Cup of Nations tournament next week. Cameroon is hosting the continent’s biggest football competition with 24 games from January 9 to February 6, 2022 after one year delay due to the Coronavirus global[Read More…]
Gambia Politico: Special New Year Message To NPP – Let’s Get To Work And Stop The Nonsense Celebrations!
If it was a UDP government, we would have been at work by now, so what are you folks frolicking for! Our country has no time to celebrate, I mean what are we celebrating – another five years of Barrow? Judging by his performance of the last five years, we[Read More…]
Dr Omar Janneh: Looking Back And Sharing Some Thoughts
In 2021, we saw in the Gambia that democracy often yields outcomes that bona fide opposition parties would not have wanted, but given our electoral laws we have to respect it as the will of the voters. I wish the Barrow government well, hoping that the clumsiness, malfeasance, and poor[Read More…]
Senegal Accuse Watford Of Blocking Sarr’s AFCON Participation
Senegal’s football authorities are accusing English club Watford of refusing to release Ismaila Sarr for this month’s Africa Cup of Nations and will be seeking FIFA’s intervention. The country’s football federation said on Sunday that Watford told it on Friday it would not be releasing the highly rated midfielder for[Read More…]
Fire Breaks Out At S/Africa’s Parliament Building
South African firefighters on Sunday battled a fire that broke out at the parliament buildings in Cape Town. According to the City of Cape Town, the Parliament building caught fire in the early hours of Sunday. Cape Town mayoral committee member for safety and security Jean-Pierre Smith said alarm was[Read More…]
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