At least 14 migrants and refugees have died when a boat caught fire in south Senegal, a local mayor and a health official told the AFP news agency. “We have been able to recover 14 bodies,” David Diatta, the mayor of the coastal town of Kafountine in Casamance, said after[Read More…]
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Citizens Use FMs To Frown On GPA/Hadim Gaye Ties
Some Gambians could not still understand why the GPA should continue to pay D5m to Hadim Gaye as annual rent for its inland container depot when the land being rented out was given to him by the Barrow government. The issue has once again gained currency in the national discourse[Read More…]
US$80m ROOTS Project Convulses From Funding Woes
Barely weeks to the last general election, President Adama Barrow launched the Resilience of Organizations for Transformative Smallholder Agricultural Project (ROOTS) amid pomp and ceremony but the project is now suffering inertia few months into its launch as much-needed funds were not forthcoming. The project is currently grappling with funding[Read More…]

