(JollofNews) – Senegal’s heavily forested southern region of Casamance will have no tree cover left by 2018 if illegal logging driven by Chinese demand is not addressed, a Senegalese ecologist warned Thursday. Gambian loggers have long benefited from lax oversight of the area’s forests to take prized rosewood timber over[Read More…]
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Gambia: Government To Build Bridge At Sandugu Bolong
(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia has announced that his government will build a bridge over the Sandugu Bolong to link Wuli and Basse. Mr Jammeh who is on a tour of the country aimed at giving him an opportunity to meet with the electorates, know their concerns[Read More…]
No Kuwaiti Guards For Gambia’s Jammeh
(JollofNews) – The Kuwaiti government has denied reports that it is deploying 320 highly trained soldiers to the Gambia to be in charge of the personal security of President Yahya Jammeh. Last week, Freedom Newspaper, an online Gambian paper based in the US, reported that the gulf state was dispatching[Read More…]
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