There are currently 28,000 people in The Gambia living with HIV/AIDS, revealed NAS. AIDS was discovered in The Gambia in 1986 and since then, the country finds it almost impossible to stamp it out thanks to multiple issues such as lack of funds and experts. Meanwhile, The Gambia will join[Read More…]
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This Claim Of Identity Genocide By Senegal MP Must Be Investigated Even By UN
We are not experts in international laws around genocide but we tend to believe that any attempt to obliterate or wipe out the identity of any group of people should constitute an act of genocide. Still based on our crude judgement, any effort that made half of a population of[Read More…]
President Barrow Exonerates Basse Area Council
President Adama Barrow has laid to rest rumours Basse Area Council transformed the Samba Jouma Bridge to a toll bridge, imposing exorbitant charges on vehicle owners. Two weeks ago, the Chairman of Basse Area Council Foday Danjo released an audio in which he rubbished a report by a France-based Gambian[Read More…]
The Gambia Accused Of Identity Genocide Against People Of Senegal
A member of Senegal’s Parliament has rung the alarm bell over, what he believes, is a looming identity genocide against the Senegalese people living in communes along the Gambia-Senegal border. MP Omar Ceesay Souvane represents an area near the border but he suggested to Senegal’s Parliament that The Gambia is[Read More…]
Barrow, NAMs Poised To Deal Gambia Last Blow – Madi Ceesay
NAM for Serekunda West has likened the Gambia’s economy to a bedridden patient, adding President Adama Barrow and his backers in the legislature are determined to deal it the last blow. According to Hon. Madi Ceesay, despite the country convulsing from economic decay, Mr. Barrow and his supporters in the[Read More…]
Why Still Mamadi Manjang Highway?
Mamadi Maniang Highway is one of the Gambia’s busiest thoroughfares in the Greater Banjul Area but for decades now, officials, businesses and people in the street could not avoid repeating the mistake of referring to this boisterous highway, named after the founder of Old Jeshwang, as Mamadi Manjang Highway.
Mechanization Is The Way Forward – President Barrow
Gambia’s Adama Barrow has vowed to make the mechanization of the agricultural sector a reality as he received the prototype of a groundnut separating machine donated to him by a philanthropist. “This is part of mechanisation. Agricultural mechanisation will increase exponentially work-speed. The harder part of the labour can now[Read More…]
Barrow Promises Peanut Farmers Of Enhanced Financial Health In Few Days
Groundnut farmers can now look forward to the enhancement of their ailing economic health in little more than a week from today as President Barrow announced 1 December 2021, as date when they’ll begin to receive cash for their peanuts. Though the announcement was unilateral and unofficially made at events[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…]
Barrow Drums Up Support For Food Banking Despite Absence Of Silos
As the unpredictability and precariousness of the Gambia’s food situation remain, President Adama Barrow is appealing to farmers to support the creation of national food banks by selling their cereals to the government. Despite government’s brutal fertilizer policy this outgoing farming season, bumper harvests have been reported in several parts[Read More…]
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