A national tragedy occured yesterday and there is nothing that can justify the killings of innocent and unarmed civilians. The people of Faraba Banta are within their democratic rights to demonstrate and voice out their concern when their community is being threatened by the large scale sand mining. But we […]

Late Monday afternoon, I came home to a pile of messages alerting to a fracas unveiling in the university town of Faraba Banta. A developing story, it reads, but the more I peel through correspondences, the scarier it came to be! Fellow Gambians – there comes a moment in life […]

By Abdoulie John  A renowned Gambian philanthropist Momodou Turo Darboe on Saturday extended great largesse to the Kololi-based Gambia Center for Victims of Human Rights Violations. Through his Vision Development Foundation (VDF), Mr. Darboe showered 100 bags of rice and 225 bags of sugar to the targeted people. The victims’ […]

By Alhassan Darboe, GunjurNewsonline The Senegambian community of Lexington and Kentucky on June 1st,2018 converged at Lexington Oakwood center to celebrate and pray for Omar Pa Mambuna Bojang, a gifted and serious young academic of Gunjur origin. Omar Bojang ,son of Pa Mambuna Bojang  of Kombo Gunjur graduated from High […]

By Abdoulie John Traders and street vendors at Serekunda market are not warming for better relations, with each group continuing to stand firm on its ground. Both sides claim their members move is ‘legally justified.’ The spiraling bad blood comes in the wake of crisis at one of The Gambia’s […]

President Adama Barrow on Monday 4th June, 2018 had a consultative meeting with major importers of the Gambian business community at State House in Banjul. The objective of the discussion was to have a dialogue around the prices of basic consumer goods in relation to tax incentives put in place […]

EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Banjul, The Gambia For Immediate Release Youliana Sadowski, Political/Economic Officer, 439-2856 PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Department of State Acknowledges Gambia’s Commitment to Religious Freedom As required by the U.S. Congress, the United States Department of State released the 2017 International Religious Freedom Report on […]

By Sainey Faye QUESTION : Did you know that Africans played a tremendous role in the creation, of what is today known as Canada.Few people know the role Africans played in building the country of Canada, in North America.The history of Canada is very much similar to that of the […]

To quickly put an end to what has been seen as a calculated ploy by UDP [United Democratic Party] enemies to create a rift within the party, Mr. Talib Ahmed Bensouda, the Mayor-elect of Kanifing Municipal Council, has debunked some wild speculations. Some so-called diasporans were quick to suggest Mr. […]

For reasons best known to them, our so-called “Environmental Activists” created a fictitious story about the Gunjur-based fish processing company. Welcome to the world of reality! A joint tour of Ministers of Fisheries and Environment, James Gomez and Lamin Dibba, to Gunjur found no threat to neither our environment nor […]

Press Release UK Jarra Association and FAR Ltd Have Partnered to Advance Women’s Health in Jarra. UK Jarra Association, a registered charitable organization in UK and The Gambia is partnering with FAR Limited – an Australian Oil Exploration Company to renovate, expand and equip the labour ward of Soma Regional […]

The defeated Gambia Democratic Congress candidate in the recent Chairmanship elections in Mansakonko Area Council has once again found himself in police custody. On May 12, Foday Lang Sarr lost to Landing Sanneh of the United Democratic Party only to be arrested and detained along with four of his relatives […]