The Gambia’s current ambassador to Mauritania Sheikh Omar Faye was in 1990 called to national duty of leading a contingent of Gambian peace-keepers to Liberia to protect the President of that country and to enforce peace amid a brutal civil war, but Faye was dismissed from the Gambia National Army[Read More…]
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Gambian Liberian Peacekeepers Yet To Receive National Recognition 35 Years On
In August of 1990, a military plane, carrying over 135 Gambian peace-keepers, took off at the Banjul International Airport for the Lungi International Airport in Sierra Leone, marking the beginning of a dangerous and gruelling nine-month peace-keeping mission for the troops to the then war-torn Liberia, but after raising the[Read More…]
Major Jammeh Passes Away
Military gun salute is later today expected to be mounted for Major Buba Jammeh, who sadly passed away on Tuesday. Major Jammeh was born in Gunjur in the Kombo South District where he received both his primary and secondary education. He enlisted in the then Gambia National Army in the[Read More…]

 
                 
                 
                