Authorities in the Gambia are hunting for over 20 inmates who broke out of a jail between Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning. The inmates escaped from the remand wing of Jeswang Prison, eight miles outside the capital Banjul. The prison which was established in the 1980s[Read More…]
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Gambian Entrepreneur Among 2018 World Export Development Forum Finalists
A Gambian social entrepreneur is among seven Africans who will take the centre-stage at this year’s World Export Development Forum (WEDF) to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges with a chance of winning seed funding to develop or scale up their projects. Omar Jallow from Basori Village,[Read More…]
President Adama Barrow Receives New Qatari Ambassador
President Adama Barrow Friday received the letter of credence of the new Qatari ambassador to the Gambia, Faisal Fahad Abdallah al-Mane’a, at the State House in Banjul. After inspecting the quarter guard mounted in his honour by the Presidential Guard, the ambassador met the president to present the official letter[Read More…]