(JollofNews) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) Gambia office Tuesday lauched the October 2017 report on the Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The report is an IMF flagship that provide analysis of cross-country and spillover effects within SSA. It discusses the recent economic developments and the outlook for countries[Read More…]
Author: Amadou Jallow, Banjul
Gambia: APRC Makes First Political Comeback Since Jammeh’s Malabo Exile
(JollofNews) – Gambia’s former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Re-Orientation and Construction (APRC) party has staged their first biggest political rally on Saturday since the going into exile in Malabo, Equitorial Guinea of their party leader, Yahya Jammeh who brututally ruled the country for 22 years. The party made a mobilisation[Read More…]
Gambia: Brikama, A Metropolitan Town Expanding In Business
(JollofNews) – Brikama, one of Gambia’s most populated towns is expanding in business with several investors adding on the already existing ones and the erection of new stalls on road sides and corners. The town’s location and it’s proximity to some of Senegal’s Cassamance region commercial towns like Zigenzour has[Read More…]
Gambia Remain Highest Debtor among IMF Sub-Saharan Africa Member countries
(JollofNews) – Gambia remained the highest debtor among the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Sub-Saharan Africa Member countries with a 120 percent debt compared to Guinea Bissau which holds only 46%, according to the Fund’s April 2017 Sub-Saharan Africa regional economic outlook. Gambia is followed on the debt ratio by its[Read More…]
Gambia: Juwara Gives Reason For Accepting Jammeh’s Ministerial Offer
(JollofNews) – The leader of Gambia’s National Democratic Action Movement (NDAM), Lamin Waa Juwara, has used an interview with JollofNews to justify his decision to serve as commissioner and minister in the regime of former President Yahya Jammeh. “If there is any justification for my acceptance of Jammeh’s appointment, it[Read More…]
Gambia: Juwara Throws Punches At Ex-President Jammeh
(JollofNews) – The leader of the Gambia’s National Democratic Action Movement (NDAM) has thrown punches at the country’s former long-term ruler accusing him of governing the country in the crudest form. Lamin Waa Juwara, a former critic of ex-President Jammeh who later served as commissioner and minister for Local Government[Read More…]
NYC Boss: Job Creation Not Sufficient To make Our Societies Crime Free
(JollofNews) – The executive director of the Gambia National Youth Council (NYC) said it remained a convenient notion among many Gambians that the availability of jobs can help to avert crime. Lamin Darboe said the government and other institutions creation of jobs is just a necessary condition but not sufficient[Read More…]
Gambia: UN Holds Consultation On 2018-2021 HIV/AIDS Joint Catch Up Programme
(JollofNews) – The United Nations system in the Gambia Tuesday convened a five-hour national consultation on the Catch Up plan for the country. The consultation is required for the Emergency Plan for West Africa and for the UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS for 2018-2021. “This is a target on how[Read More…]
Kanilai Military Commander Denies Rumours Of Impending Attack On MFDC Rebels
(JollofNews) – Rumours of a heavy build-up by officers of the Senegal led Ecowas Military Intervention Group (Ecomig) in Gambia’s former President Yahya Jammeh’s home village of Kanilai and elsewhere ahead of an alleged assault on the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) in Senegal’s southern region has been[Read More…]
Gambia: Foni Bondali District Residents To Unite For Common Interest
(JollofNews) – The people of Bondali District Saturday pruned tree branches that reduced visibility along the Mayork-Alla Kunda Road, where they appealed to one another to unite towards the common development interest of their district. Construction of the road was funded by the Republic of Taiwan, Gambia’s one-time well trusted ally[Read More…]
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