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…]
Liberia Declares Covid-19 State of Emergency
Liberian President George Manneh Weh has declared a three-week state of emergency beginning on April 10 as part of measures to curtail the further spread of coronavirus in the country. In a nationwide address that lasted for 15 minutes on Wednesday, President Weah said even though the country’s health team[Read More…]
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