The Gambia Government wishes to inform all Civil Servants that a memo trending on Social Media on purported rescheduling of the new pay and grading scale to 1st January 2023, is grossly false and misleading, designed to cause anxiety and disgust among the population. Civil Servants are particularly urged to[Read More…]
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Momodou Sabally Rubbishes Defection Rumours
UDP aspirant for Busumbala Constituency, Momodou Sabally popularly known as Baba La Commando has rubbished rumours that he has decamped his part and joined President Barrow’s National Peoples Party. It was rumours on social networking sites that the popular politician has met with Mr Barrow and has since switched his[Read More…]
Gambia Briefs OIC Summit On Rohingya Trial Progress, Calls For More Support
Press Release On the sidelines of the ongoing 48th Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Summit in Islamabad, Pakistan, The Gambia on Tuesday provided a detailed update on the case it filed at the International Court of Justice in The Hague against Myanmar for the acts of genocide[Read More…]
Press Release: Gambia Participates In OIC Foreign Ministers Summit In Pakistan
The Chief Executive Officer of The Gambia OIC Secretariat, Mr. Yankuba Dibba is taking part in the 48th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Islamabad, Pakistan. CEO Dibba is part of a high-level Gambian government delegation led by the Minister of[Read More…]
One Senegalese Soldier Killed, Eight Wounded And Several MFDC Bases Destroyed
Senegal’s army said on Tuesday that it had “totally destroyed” several rebel bases belonging to southern separatists, with one soldier killed and eight wounded in the military operation. On 13 March, the army announced that it had launched an operation in the Casamance region of the West African state, aiming[Read More…]
Gambia Says Deliberate Price Hikes Are Unacceptable
The Gambia Government through the Ministries of Trade and Industry and Finance and Economic Affairs held a joint stakeholder meeting yesterday with major importers of essential commodities and seriously discussed issues over the rising prices of essential goods. During the ministerial meeting, The Gambia Government acknowledged the external circumstances emanating[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: The Illegality And Immorality Of Amnesty For Sanna Sabally
The uproar that emerged in the wake of TRRC’s purported recommendation for Sanna Sabally has raised many perspectives which divided the Gambian public into two main camps. One camp completely disagrees with the TRRC on the basis that Sabally killed human beings without putting them through due process. The other[Read More…]
Gambia Want To Avoid Becoming One-Tournament Wonders
Tom Saintfiet, the Belgian coach who transformed Gambia from minnows to Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finalists this year, desperately wants to avoid the fate that befell Madagascar. Debutants Madagascar took the 2019 Cup of Nations in Egypt by storm, stunning Nigeria in a group match, then eliminating the Democratic Republic[Read More…]
“Sotuma Sere Sankanu Has No Slavery Problem.” – Says Alkalo Sankanu
Alhagie Abdou Kadiri Sankanu, the sitting Alkalo of Sotuma Sere and patriarch of the ‘Sankanu Kaggoro’ dynasty in the Jimara district of the Upper River Region (URR) of The Gambia said that the recent detention of six (6) young people from his community by the police from Basse was a[Read More…]
Operation Casamance: At Least 6,000 People Flee To The Gambia
An estimated 6,000 people have taken refuge in the Gambia after fleeing the violence in the past week between the army and rebels in Casamance, in the south of neighboring Senegal, the Gambian authorities announced on Saturday 19 March. The Senegalese army announced that it had launched an operation on[Read More…]
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