Fees for pissing and bowel emptying at the Gambian capital’s main car park has risen from D2 to D5 as The Gambia battles inflationary pressures and fast-eroding local currency value. Since 2019, commodity prices and government service fees in the impoverished West African nation have been spiraling out of the[Read More…]
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APRC To Launch Legal Action Against Ex-Soldier Sanyang Over Bureau Arson Claim
Gambia’s former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) is preparing the grounds to launch a legal action against a former member of the country’s national military after he publicly admitted to bankrolling the burning of the party’s bureau in 2016, a credible source informed JollofNews. Former soldier Sanyang[Read More…]
Njie Girigara Says Gov’t’s Handling Of Cement Sector ‘Catastrophic’
Businessman and supporter of President Adama Barrow’s Pa Njie Girigara has lamented the dominance of the Gambia’s cement sector by a fistful of powerful businessmen, highlighting that the Barrow administration’s handling of the sector “is catastrophic.” Mr. Njie Girigara indicated that the granting of monopoly status to Jah Oil, Salam[Read More…]
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