Peace Corps signifies true Gambia-US friendship - US Ambassador

Ambassador Cromer made the remarks on Wednesday at the Peace Corps Massembeh Training Center in Lower River Region during the swearing in of the most recent group of Peace Corps volunteers in agriculture and health. The swearing-in ceremony marked the …

Gambia graces 3rd African Union Conference

Addressing the gathering at the event held in Pretoria, South Africa, Hon. FJC, who represented the Gambia Government and President Adama Barrow, stated that investing in women’s economic empowerment and gender equality yields enormous dividends for peace …

Gambia’s 2023 remittance inflows at US$564.1M

At a press conference held yesterday at the Bank’s conference room, Governor Saidy explained that global economic growth had lost momentum since the last MPC meeting in August 2023 with a slowdown in the manufacturing, trade, and services sectors. This, he …

Gambia Participates trains aspiring politicians

The capacity building held at Sir Dawada Kairaba Jawara International Conceference Centre, was held on the slogan ‘get ready to run.’ The forum seeks to encourage youth to partake and show interest in political matters. Prominent Gambian politicians   …

Gambian man convicted in Germany for role in killings under Gambia’s former ruler

BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Thursday convicted a Gambian man of murder and crimes against humanity for involvement in the killing of government critics in his West African homeland. The killings took place nearly two decades ago when, the court found, …

Historic verdict in quest for justice for murder of RSF’s Gambia correspondent in 2004

Deyda Hydara was under surveillance during the Jammeh regime One of his country’s best known journalists, Deyda Hydara co-founded and edited the newspaper The Point, was The Gambia correspondent of Agence France-Presse and RSF, and wrote a widely-read …

CEPI, IVI and MRC Unit The Gambia to bolster clinical research capacity in West Africa to combat regional viral threat

To strengthen sustainable clinical research capacity and long-term outbreak preparedness The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Republic of Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Gambia’s Medical Research Council …

Nigeria’s Jeff Ugiomoh and The Gambia’s Fatou Kebbeh Emerge as the Future Face Global 2023 Winners

Future Face Global’s 2023 Grand Finale, held at the prestigious Royal Box at Cube 65 Mikano Building in Lagos, Nigeria, marked the triumph of two outstanding models: Jeff Ugiomoh from Nigeria and Fatou Kebbeh from The Gambia. This glamorous event brought …

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) undertakes a closing ceremony for the Technical Cooperation window of ...

PM Ngirente holds talks with Gambia Vice President