For Immediate Release: Nairobi, 24 March 2020 – Responding to reports that Kenya’s government has abandoned the fight against locusts which are still ravaging many parts of the country, Greenpeace Africa’s Food Campaigner, Claire Nasike has said: “While the government is putting a lot of effort into dealing with the […]
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EU’s Global Response to COVID-19 Crisis
EU Ambassador to The Gambia Attila Lajos said: “In this time of crisis we all must play our part and take up responsibility, and so does the European Union” The European Union is a global actor and as such, it bears a specific duty to address global threats and to […]
U.S. Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Banjul, The Gambia – In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, The United States is taking decisive action to inform and safeguard U.S. citizens overseas, protect the homeland, advance the Administration’s commitment to building global health security capacity for this and future outbreaks, and reduce the impact on U.S. […]
African countries move swiftly to head off coronavirus spread
Fears over health systems prompt states to take early preventative measures March 18, 2020 5:00 am by David Pilling in London, Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg and Neil Munshi in Lagos Many African states are taking earlier action than Europe to suppress coronavirus in an effort to stamp out a disease […]
Coronavirus Arrives In Gambia
The Gambia has reported its first Coronavirus case, exactly four months after the pandemic first broke out in the Central China city of Wuhan. The Gambia’s Health Minister Dr. Ahmadou Samateh revealed the news on national television on Tuesday night. Chinese government records showed the first Coronavirus was discovered on […]
Gambia Not Complacent On Coronavirus
Gambian President Adama Barrow has said his government has not been complacent in dealing with Coronavirus. President Barrow said “there are surveillance teams at all major entry points into the country, whether by air or land.” Read below President Barrow’s televised nationwide broadcast on his government’s efforts on COVID 19 […]
Sheikh Lewis: The Man For All Seasons And Human Rights Icon
Born in Banjul on October 29, 1954, Sheikh E T Lewis was a man of: all people, all races, all creeds and all class. He lived his life positively impacting on many other lives in the Gambia and beyond. But who was this gentleman of the finest character? Well, Sheikh […]
‘My Record Will Surpass Jawara, Jammeh Put Together’
President Adama Barrow has told a delegation from Basse that his intention is to deliver a development record that will surpass the 50-year record of the first and second Gambian Presidents put together. The delegation, comprising prominent and influential citizens of Basse were at the State House on Sunday, March […]
Gambia Government and Timber Trade: What Next After BBC Report?
It is more than 72 hours since BBC released a damning documentary on the illegal timber trade between the Gambia and Senegal yet the Gambian authorities remain mute. It is obvious that officials of both countries are both facilitators and beneficiaries in this illegal activity otherwise it could not have […]
Major General Drammeh Becomes CDS
The public is hereby informed that His Excellency, Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of The Gambia and Commander-In-Chief of The Gambia Armed Forces, acting in accordance to Section 190, sub-section (1a) of the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia has made the following appointments: Major General Yakuba […]
Gambia Suspends Overseas Travels
As part of the efforts to curb risks of spreading the Coronavirus, the Office of the Secretary General has sent out a circular informing all Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Clerk of the National Assembly, Heads and Directors of Government Departments and Agencies, Managing Directors and Director Generals of Public Enterprises and […]
Dakar Hosts 2nd Presidential Council Meeting
Gambian and Senegalese Experts and Ministers have started the second Presidential Council Meeting between their two governments in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, from the 10th – 12th March 2020. The Presidential Council Meeting will be preceded by the Experts Meeting, which will work in sub-committees to discuss Defense […]