Prices of imported food items could further rocket skywards as importers find it virtually impossible to acquire the required dollars for importation. Importers of food commodities have also been at the receiving end of the dollar dearth as they struggled to get supplies for the past several months. There were[Read More…]
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Children In Gambia Go To School Hungry
Children in The Gambia go to school on hungry bellies, JollofNews found out. The deepening nutritional and food insecurity that the country wallows in are increasingly threatening the cognitive development of children, JollofNews discovered. Dwindling household incomes and rising food prices have forced several Gambian families to curtail the number[Read More…]
Why Do Gambia’s Leaders Always Leave The Stage Without Ceremony?
One thing that is increasingly becoming constant in the Gambia’s post-independence political trajectory is the chaotic nature of change of power. When the late Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara’s sun downed on 22 July 1994, he was literally scampering to safety alongside his family and officials. Meanwhile when Jammeh’s “Supreme” power[Read More…]