The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached a staff level agreement for a $6.4 million loan program for Gambia to help the West African country tackle inflation and foreign exchange market pressures, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Gambia’s inflation rate rose to two-digit figures in April and reached[Read More…]
Economy
Barrow To Appoint Trade Minister Eight Months After Seedy Left
Eight months after the redeployment of former trade minister seedy Keita to finance, The Gambia will hopefully get a trade minister before October end. This assurance was given by Information minister Lamin Queen Jammeh on Tuesday morning. He told Coffee Time With Peter Gomez that:” On or before 15 October,[Read More…]
Where Is The Japanese Food Aid?
In June this year, the minister of foreign affairs and the Japanese ambassador signed a food aid agreement. According to officials, the food relief was to come in the form of rice donation and was meant to cushion vulnerable Gambians from the effects of the Covid pandemic. However, the Gambia[Read More…]
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