The European Union (EU) Election Observer Mission to the Gambia has called for the advancement of political participation rights in the country as part of its recommendations following the 2021 presidential election. During a press conference held on Thursday, at the Coco Ocean Hotel in Bijilo, Chief of Mission Norbert[Read More…]
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IMF, WB, EU Should Be Concerned About Gambians’ Uproar Over ‘Corruption’
If the IMF, WB and EU could give Gambia money but with strings attached, they can equally help it deal with corruption. The apparent laisez faire attitude of these financing institutions towards the deepening public perception of official corruption in the country has yet to be understood. Despite pumping millions of[Read More…]
EU Rep. Joins Gambians In Fretting About Crashed Draft Constitution
Gambians and their partners in development are still fretting about the jettisoning of the D116m draft constitution with the EU ambassador being the latest to describe the development as a reversal in the country’s yearning for sound democratic health. The man representing the member countries of the European Union in[Read More…]
Gambia/EU Cooperation, Partnership & Consultative Meeting
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad on Monday 14th November 2022 received in audience a delegation from the European Union Commission in Brussels for the first expert meeting between the EU Inter-Service Team and Heads of Ministries and other institutions of the Government of The Gambia[Read More…]
Ambassadors Of EU Member States Host ECOWAS President In Abuja
The Ambassadors of the European Union (EU) Member States to the Federal Republic of Nigeria and ECOWAS hosted Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, the President of the ECOWAS Commission to a breakfast meeting on ways of enhancing cooperation on November 11, 2022, in Abuja, Nigeria. The Head of the European Union[Read More…]
EU To Introduce Visa Restrictions For The Gambia & Senegal
The EU’s Commission is to introduce visa restrictions for The Gambia and Senegal, JollofNews can report. The restrictions will be introduced as a leverage for readmission of illegal migrants, this medium has gathered. According to reports, the EU’s Commission on 9th November 2022, adopted proposals for the introduction of visa[Read More…]
Editorial: Is West Actually Losing Faith In Gov’t’s Handling Of Cash?
Two weeks or so ago, UDP leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe was telling a delegation from Baddibu that visited him that the West has now lost so much confidence in the Barrow government’s ability to prudently manage public funds that they are now redirecting some funds away from it. Hon. Darboe[Read More…]
Darboe Hints At Waning Global Trust Over Gov’t’s Attitude Towards Money
Lawyer Ousainou Darboe has indicated that the international community has started losing confidence in the Barrow government over its management of public funds. The UDP leader believed the trust of the international community in the Barrow government as regards finances was dwindling. To Hon. Darboe, the recent ‘diversion’ of D200,000[Read More…]
EU To Give ‘Virtually Bankrupt’ Gambia $340 Million
(JollofNews) – The European Union announced aid worth 225 million euros (S$340 million) for The Gambia on Thursday (Feb 9) as President Adama Barrow warned that the nation was “virtually bankrupt” due to economic mismanagement by the former regime. The EU froze assistance to The Gambia in December 2014 over the[Read More…]
UK, US, UN, EU, Canada Congratulate Gambians For Peaceful Polls
(JollofNews) – The United States and the United Kingdom have congratulated the people of Gambia on the peaceful conduct of presidential polls in the country. The United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) have also sent congratulations to Gambians and the president-elect Adama Barrow. The December 1 polls was won[Read More…]
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