On Thursday March 19 the President announced a package of D500 million as response to the Coronavirus. This is indeed a laudable initiative. However, it is now more than 72 hours since that announcement was made and there is no emergency sitting of the National Assembly to approve this money.[Read More…]
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Gambia: Banjul South National Assembly Member Speaks
A Gambian National Assembly Member who was arrested on Sunday by police has issued a statement denying allegations against her. Fatoumatta Touma Njai, a People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member for Banjul South was detained at the Senegambia Police Station on Sunday after she allegedly tried to remove her mother from[Read More…]
Coronavirus: Gambia Confirms First Death
A 70-year-old Bangladeshi Tablighi Jama‘at (preacher) has become the first person to die from coronavirus in the Gambia, health officials have confirmed. The man who has not been named, arrived in the country from Senegal on 13th March 2020 and was residing at the Markaz Islamic Centre in Bundungka Kunda,[Read More…]
Gambia: Police Give Reasons For Banjul South NAM’s Arrest
A Gambian female member of the Gambia’s National Assembly who is currently detained at Senegambia Police Station was arrested for obstruction, police have confirmed. Fatoumatta Touma Njai, a People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member for Banjul South, was arrested by police on Sunday after trying remove her mother from a quarantine[Read More…]
Guinea’s Referendum Marred By Violence
Opposition supporters in Guinea attacked a polling station and clashed with police in the capital, Conakry, in an attempt to disrupt a referendum which they say President Alpha Conde wants to use to extend his time in office. They also vandalised voting equipment that was also being used in coinciding[Read More…]
Gambia: National Assembly Member For Banjul South Detained
Police in the Gambia Sunday arrested a female member of the country’s National Assembly. Fatoumatta Touma Njai, a People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member for Banjul South is currently held at Senegambia Police Station. Gambian authorities are yet to comment on Ms Njai’s arrest but there are reports on social media[Read More…]
Samsudeen Sarr: Letter To Gambia’s Defence Minister Shiekh Omar Faye
Dear Honorable Minister, Shiekh Omar Faye, after listening to your interview with journalist Mr. Omar Wally of the Fatu Network on March 20, 2020, I did suggest in my article published on the Freedom Newspaper and other media outlets that Gambians could now dispel all conjectures attributed to the missing[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambians Do Not Have Access To Clean And Regular Drinking Water
Today, marked ‘The World Water Day’ on March 22 every year with a damning statistic that over hundreds of thousands of Gambians do not have access to safe drinking water. In unequivocal and straightforward terms, we mostly get our water from unhealthy sources, such as streams and ponds. There are[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: Only With Effective Leadership Can We Subdue Covid-19
A leader, they say, is also a dealer in hope. In times of great adversity, when the world is confronted with a disease whose cure has so far eluded the scientific world; when life, in most part, has grounded to a halt and monotonously the wheel of activity grinds; when[Read More…]
Coronavirus: Gambia’s Only Testing Centre Not Open To Walk-In Requests
The Gambia’s only testing centre for the coronavirus is advising people with symptoms of the disease not to walk into its unit in Fajara. The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said COVID19 testing in the country is facilitated by its[Read More…]
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