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196 Gambian Soldiers Leave for Darfur
The seventh Gambian contingent (GAMCOY 7), comprising 196 members of the Gambia Armed Forces, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sainey Bayo, left Gambian soil at 5:00 am this morning, for the Sudanese troubled region of Darfur. The latest contingent includes...Click

Power Up Gambia to Provide Solar Panels to the SJG Hospital
Power Up Gambia has been fundraising since October 2006 for a solar system for Sulayman Junkung General Hospital in Bwiam. Kathryn Cunningham, a 22 year old undergraduate student, founded Power Up Gambia after participated in Cross Road Program in that hospital during the summer of 2006...Click

We Have Iron Ore! President Jammeh Reveals
"Huge" deposits of iron ore have been found in The Gambia. This joyous discovery, which was revealed by President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, is in addition to the discovery of offshore oil deposits disclosed three years ago.However, the president...Click

Media Foundation For Africa: Press Release
A Banjul Magistrate court presided over by Buba Jawo on June 23, 2008 dismissed the case of sedition preferred against Dida Halake, detained former Managing Director of the pro-government Daily Observer newspaper. Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) sources reported that it followed a request by Halake’s counsel Lamin Jobarteh...Click

Deafness fear for Gambian girl facing deportation
A toddler who underwent a series of operations to improve her hearing is facing a lifetime of total deafness after the Home Office refused her family permission to stay in the UK.Fatima Chaw's hearing was damaged when she contracted meningitis a few weeks after she was born in...Click

Human Rights Watch
President Should Disavow Reported Homophobic Threats
President Yahya Jammeh's reported threats to expel or kill lesbian and gay people not only encourage hatred, but also contribute to a climate in which basic rights can be assaulted with impunity, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the president...Click

$ 32,701 for Darsilameh  storm victims
The International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)has allocated CHF 34,000 (USD 32,701 or EUR 20,982) from the Federation’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the victims of the 2 June 2008 severe storm that hit the area around Darsilameh village in the Western Region of Gambia. The storm caused damage to...Click

Gambia: 2008 - More Rainfall Forecast
More than a normal rain fall is expected, according to climate forecast for this year's wet season, 2008, with at least 635 mm of rainfall in The Gambia.Reports from the Department of...Click

Gambia deports French hotel manager
Gambia’s five-star Atlantic Hotel General Manager Sylvain Chauvet has been deported to his native country, France, by the Gambia Immigrant Department, sources confirmed. According to PANA sources, the Frenchman was picked-up from his office at the hotel...Click

A Giant Leap for Little Country
President Yahya Jammeh on Saturday officially commissioned the modern and magnificent Gam-Petroleum storage facility in Mandinary village, Kombo North, Western Region.The US$50 million storage facility, the first of its kind in The Gambia, is in fulfillment of government's...Click

Lack of Fire Hydrants in Impedes Rescue Operations
Superintendent Haddy Bah Konneh, public relations officer at The Gambia Fire and Ambulance Service has revealed that the shortage of water hydrants is a major hindrance to fire brigade operations in the Kanifing Municipality...Click

IGLHRC Condemns Statements by President
In a strongly worded letter to Gambian President Yahyeh Jammeh, Paula Ettelbrick, Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) condemned statements by the West African leader...Click

Malick Jones arrest was a mistake by police
Gambian journalist and Principal Producer at the Gambia Radio Television Services, Radio department, Mr. Malick Jones, says his arrest followed a mistake by the police. Jones, who was arrested Monday, described his arrest and detention as an act of ...Click

Jammeh...ultimatum to homosexuals, drug dealers, thieves....
President Yahya Jammeh turned on homosexuals and foreigners in an address at a victory celebration rally in Tallinding..... "An ultimatum to homosexuals, drug dealers, thieves and other criminals, to leave The Gambia or face serious consequences...Click

Gambia international Roots festival launched
The maiden press briefing on the Roots International festival, a biennial international cultural and educational event commemorating the forced enslavement and transportation of millions of Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean has taken place in London...Click

Embrace agriculture or no govt assistance
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has told the people of his constituency, Foni, in the Western part of the country that by 2009 he would stop providing assistance to them if they failed to response to his call to take u p agriculture as the way forward.He made this statement Thursday on the Gambia Radio and Television Services...Click

New airline storms Gambia
Intercontinental Airways will become the newest airline to storm Gambian aviation industry soon. The new airline's Managing Director boasts of "a safe and cost-effective" airline. "We have a commitment to maintain safety, that is why we choose...Click

Water leakage threatens residents of Gambian capital
Residents in the Greater Banjul Area in the Gambia have expressed their frustration over the continuous leakage of Water from pipes within the area in recent time.Concerned about the danger the leakage poses to health, the residents Friday called...Click

D$551m.......Gambia's food problems
The President of the National Farmers' Platform in the Gambia, Musa Jawneh, has said his association, which represents all farmers nationwide has proposed a new plan of over D551 million to ease the food crisis in the country. Mr. Jawneh reveals this in an exclusive...Click

US grants Gambia AGOA textile visa
The United States Government has granted The Gambia a te xtile visa which allows the country to export textile and garment products to th e U.S. duty-free and quota-free under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGO A ).News of the textile visa was contained in a letter sent to the Secretary of Stat e for Trade, Industry and Employment...Click

Gambia: Shops Demolished At Jerma Beach Hotel
A line of stalls were last week demolished, turning the area into a ground zero, by personnel of the Tourism Security Unit, following allegations that the owners had been using the area to trade in illicit drugs.According to Abdou Touray, one of the affected victims...Click

Gambia threatens to jail profiteering rice traders
FARAFENNI, Gambia, May 7 (Reuters) - Gambia's president threatened on Wednesday to lock up traders who sold rice at more than the going rate in an effort to stop them profiteering from high world food prices.Yahya Jammeh, who has brooked little dissent since he seized power in mainland Africa's smallest country in a 1994 military coup, said he had reached a deal with rice importers to sell rice at a maximum of...Click

The Looming Food Crisis - No..........
Rice is the major staple food in The Gambia. An estimated 66% of household income is spent on food. Out of which about 30.9% is spent on cereal and cereal products, of which the major part 83.2% is rice (National Household Poverty Survey -NHPS 1998)Cereal production under the upland production systems on alluvial soils, is predominantly subsistence rain-fed agriculture. As a result, the decline in annual rainfall, and the erratic nature of the rains...Click

French supports language in Gambia with 80,000 euros
Banjul, Gambia - Gambia Secretary of State for Finance and Economic Affairs, Mr. Musa Bala Gaye, has signed a 80,000 euros French-backed financial assistance agreement for the promotion of the French language in The Gambia's education sector.In a press statement issued by the Department of State for Finance and Economic...Click

Sir Dawda urges journalists to step up malaria education
Former Gambian President Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara on Tue sday reiterated that malaria was a deadly disease in Africa and urged journalist s to educate the public on the dangers of a malaria attack.He said journalists had a big role to play in the fight...Click

Gambia Leads Malaria War
UNICEF, the leading agency for children globally established in 1946 and operating in 183 countries including The Gambia, has merited The Gambia as one of the 44 countries that signed the Abuja Declaration in 2000 to halve the burden of the deadly illness, Malaria, by 2010 According to reports from UNICEF Banjul office, The Gambia is also the country most likely to reach the 2010 target...Click

Carnegie Minerals Case, State Ex Parte Motion Struck out
Banjul High Court yesterday struck out the ex parte motion filed by the state as the trial of the Carnegie Minerals company itself and the General Manager, Andrew Charles Northfield, continued.According to Justice Naceesay Salla-Wadda, the matter is a criminal...Click

Senegal, Gambia sign fishing agreement
Gambian Fisheries and Water Resources Secretary Yankuba Touray has said that fishing had become an important element in the global market place in response to the dynamic food industry...Click

Gambia Pens Two-Year Contract With Italian Coaches
The Department of State for Youth and Sport last Friday signed a two-year contract with two Italian coaches namely the Head Coach of the national U20 team Mr. Lorenzo Rubinacci and Goalkeeping Coach Mr. Franco Crescentini at the...Click

World Health Day 2008
7 APRIL 2008 | GENEVA -- Scientists tell us that the evidence the Earth is warming is "unequivocal." Increases in global average air and sea temperature, ice melting and rising global sea levels all help us understand and prepare for the coming challenges. In addition to these observed changes, climate-sensitive impacts on...Click

City man held in Gambia
Full diplomatic support is being provided to a Plymouth-born mining engineer facing charges in The Gambia on illegally mining uranium according to ministers.The official reassurance came after the case of Charlie Northfield was raised in Parliament by Labour MP for Plymouth Sutton Linda Gilroy. The 48-year-old father...Click

Gambia: 'Assembly Should Investigate Area Councils' - Sidia Jatta
The National Assembly Member for Wuli West, Honourable Sidia Jatta, has tasked the assembly to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate some of the Area Councils in the country.Sidia made this statement at the National Assembly, on Tuesday, during the debate on the speech made by the president at the National Assembly. He said most of the Area Councils are collecting taxes from the people, but rendering no services...Click

Gambia University in Court
The University of the Gambia is currently answering to a civil suit by its former employee, Dr Felixtina Eileen Dowu Jonsyn-Ellis.The plaintiff's claims include the payment of her one month's salary, being damage for wrongful dismissal; the payment of her five years salary for compensation for loss of future earnings; the payment of all her social security contributions, until she attain the...Click

Aldingbourne village funds build school in Gambia
Kind-hearted villagers in Aldingbourne have succeeded in providing a school in Africa.The generosity of residents and businesses to a fundraising campaign by David and Janet Underwood means the...Click

Ex Gambia chief electoral officer jailed
Magistrate Sainabou Wadda-Ceesay of the Kanifing court in The Gambia Tuesday convicted Kawsu Ceesay, the former Chief Electoral Officer of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), after finding him guilty of forging the signature of the former Chairman of IEC, Mr. Ndondi Njie. The accused was sentenced to pay a fine of...Click

Gambian Hero Laid to Rest
Thousands of sympathisers on Friday gathered at the Gunjur cemetery to attend the funeral of another gallant officer of The Gambia Armed Forces, Major Famara Jammeh, who perished in a helicopter crash on Monday March 3, 2008 in the Kingdom of Nepal. It would be too far beyond understanding were God to have given...Click

WAMI impressed with Gambia’s economic performance
Banjul, Gambia - The West African Monetary Institute (WAMI), has describe d the economic performance of the Gambia in 2007 as satisfactory, the PANA repo r ts from here. A press release from the United States Department of...Click

Casamance Timber Trade Banned
The trading of timber from the Casamance region of Senegal is banned. According to reliable reports, the Senegalese Government has banned the export of timber for more than one month now. Units of Senegalese Military Officers ...Click

Security Agents Defy Ecowas Court Over 'Disappeared' Journalist's Case
Five state agents of The Gambia, who were summoned by the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria in the ongoing case of a "disappeared" Gambian journalist on March 11, 2008, defied the court's order and failed to make...Click

Brain Drain
Think of you going through all the pains of raising your family amidst all kind of imaginable hardship, with out a grain of help from whosoever. and at old age, time for you to reap the benefit of your children, someone totally alien to your family got in the way. Instead of your children doing exactly what they are supposed...Click

International Women's Day Commemorated
Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy, Vice President and secretary of state for Women's Affairs has said that the attainment of the goal of gender equality and women's empowerment not only in the Gambia but also in the world at large cannot be achieved without the availability of timely and adequate financil human resources and other resources....Click

International Women's Day Commemorated
Saturday 8 March is recognised as the International Women's Day celebrated all over the world. In The Gambia, the women organisation called Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices (GAMCOTRAP) commemorated the day with the official...Click

Work Please, for the Good of The Gambia
Graduation should be a happy time. It should be the time when a student moves from academic achievement into the adult world of earning a living in a profession. Unfortunately here in The Gambia this is not...Click

HIV/AIDS survey kicks off in Gambia
Dakar, Senegal - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in part nership with a developmental organisation, 'Nova Scotia-Gambia Association' (NSG A ), has started a nationwide "HIV/AIDS awareness and knowledge baseline survey" t a rgeting an identified "vulnerable groups" in the Gambia, NSGA's liaison, Lamin F a tty, revealed...Click

Former Intelligence Officer Tortured, May Die
Former National Intelligence Agency officer Yahya Bajinka has been detained in secret since the 15 April 2007. He is now known to have been tortured, and is being denied medical attention in an attempt to keep his detention secret. His health has deteriorated so badly that without treatment he is likely to die...Click

African-American History Month Observed
The Embassy of the United States of America in The Gambia, in collaboration with the Administration of The Gambia College, Brikama Campus on Thursday 28 February, 2008 observed the African American History Month. The African American History Month was observed at the College Auditorium....Click

Gambia: Its a Rip-Off! Carnegie Minerals Cheated
At an extra-ordinary press conference, at which virtually all the diplomats in The Gambia were present, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Crispin Grey-Jonson, stated calmly but most definitely clearly the Gambia government's view that Carnegie Minerals (Gambia) Ltd...Click

Gambia-Senegal Military Cooperation...
Senegal and The Gambia are determine to reinforcing the two countries' military cooperation with a focus on peace-keeping operations and training troops from both sides. This development evolved...Click

The Point Boss Condemns Slanderers
The co-proprietor and managing editor of The Point newspaper, Pap Saine has quickly and unreservedly condemned certain UK/US based websites for their totally inaccurate and irresponsible comments about the National Intelligence Agency (NIA)....Click

Gambia shuts down Carnegie Minerals offices -sources
BANJUL, Feb 12/08 (Reuters) - Authorities in Gambia shut down the offices of British-based miner Carnegie Minerals (CGMR.L: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday, almost a month after President Yahya Jammeh ordered the firm to clarify its activities, police sources said...Click

Late Stella Marsden her Legacy
She was appointed OBE in 2006 for services to wildlife conservation and development in The Gambia. In 1968 the first orphan chimpanzee, William, came into her life and Stella's future direction was...Click

They Are Sending the Girls Away From School Mr. President!
It is claimed that there is free education for girls in The Gambia . However, little is mentioned of the limited nature of the education support being provided to some girls.The senior secondary schools have...Click

Sene-Gambian Teachers Call for Integration
The Gambia Teachers Union on December 9, last year, signed a joint communiqué with a leading teachers' union in Senegal, Syndicate Unique Et Democratique des Enseignants du Senegal (SUDES), in Dakar, during the 12th National Delegates...Click

UTG Turns out 172 More Graduates
The University of The Gambia (UTG), The Gambia’s first ever university, on Saturday held the 4th Convocation ceremony for 172 graduates, nine years after the establishment of the institution. The latest degree conferment brings to 649 the total number of graduates since its establishment.The historic occasion, which is the culmination of years of hard work and sacrifice on the part of students, parents and staff of The University of The...Click

Half Die Residents Given Ultimatum to Vacate
At least 36 compounds within Banjul South, commonly known as "Half Die", were given one month notice by the Gambia Ports Authority to vacate their compounds or face forceful eviction by February 29. The 36 compounds were among...Click

Spain Cooperation Bears Fruit
At the invitation of Miguel Angel Moratinos, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Spain, Crispin Grey-Johnson, secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, led a week-long mission to Madrid from January 8 to 15, geared towards deepening bilateral...Click

Is there more to the Gambia than just beaches and sun?
There's a scuffle going on in the undergrowth; a troop of baboons has crept up to steal the chimps' fruit. The alpha male screams his outrage and charges to and fro, sending the baboons packing – but not for...Click

Ghana and The Gambia..investigate killings
Both Ghana and The Gambia have agreed on a joint panel to investigate and establish the truth about the killing of some Ghanaian nationals in the neighbouring West African State.This was the outcome of a meeting between the two countries...Click

Gambian president says uranium and other metals found
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said Saturday that uranium had been found in exploitable quantities in the country, along with other precious metals and minerals."I am pleased to announce that uranium has been discovered in the Gambia," Jammeh announced on national television, adding that the reserves were "100 percent exploitable."He also said that new...Click

E-Space Poised to End Illegal Migration
Eleanor Cole, director of E-Space Gambia Limited has expressed her readiness to create employment opportunities for young Gambians, with the aim of eradicating illegal migration to the Canary Islands.In an exclusive interview with the Daily Observer, Mrs Cole said the phenomenon of illegal migration...Click

Arab Consulting Engineers to Supervise Westfield - Sukuta Road Construction
"Arab Consulting Engineers of Egypt are the design and supervision consultants for the proposed Westfield-Sukuta road project", according to information from GAMWORKS officials.The GAMWORKS officials made this disclosure...Click

Gambia gives Carnegie a day to clarify activities
BANJUL, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahyah Jammeh on Thursday gave British-based miner Carnegie Minerals (CGMR.L: Quote, Profile, Research) 24 hours to clarify its activities in the tiny West African country or risk losing its licence....Click

Food Price Inflation Now 9.5 Percent
Food price inflation has accelerated from 0.25 per cent in December 2006 to 9.46 per cent in December 2007, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of The Gambia revealed on Friday in a release issued at a news briefing. Non food prices, on the other hand...Click

Army veterans to drive £100 car to Gambia
TWO Gulf war veterans planning to drive an old banger to Gambia for charity are now on their way.Cpl Mike Collins, of Connah's Quay, and Cpl Paul Lariat, from Dobshill, waved goodbye as they set out on the challenge on Wednesday.They will be reporting home via the internet as they negotiate the Sahara Desert in a car worth no more...Click

German Project in Jiffin Village
"Justice for Africa", a non-governmental international charitable organisation based in Germany has extended its work to The Gambia. Speaking in an interview with the Daily Observer, Dwight Cosah, director and founder of the organisation said that the initiative came as a result of his visit to The Gambia a few years back....Click

Nigerian Bank  PHB Acquires IBC
Reports monitored by the Nigerian daily newspaper, The Sun, indicate that Bank PHB Plc has acquired the Gambian-based International Bank for Commerce (IBC).According to the Monday 7th January 2008 edition of the said newspaper, the deal saw...Click

A half million Euro nursery School Inaugurated in Badibu
A half million Euro nursery school project was, on Friday, inaugurated in Badibu-Suware Kunda, North Bank Region at a ceremony presided over by Edward Seckan, governor of North Bank Region.The school, a four-year project sponsored by Belgian...Click

IGP Warns Drunk Drivers
One Abdoulie Max Jagne, a Gambian based in Norway, on Wednesday donated digital alcohol detectors to The Gambia Police Force at the Police Headquarters in Banjul.Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Gambia samaritan...Click
 

Gambia raises salaries by 20 percent
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announced a 20 percent pay increase for all civil servants on Tuesday, two weeks after multilateral donors approved debt relief for the tiny, impoverished West African country. Jammeh, who seized power in a bloodless military coup nearly 14 years ago, said in his New Year's message that government revenues freed by the debt cancellation would be used on social spending...Click

Another Plus for the Health Sector
The British couple Paul and Carole Thorn recently donated materials worth one million Dalasis to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, Banjul. Several philantropists, organisations and other friends of The Gambia have also contributed in the health sector, which is among the priorities of President Jammeh....Click

Slok Back Next Week Commercial Boss Speaks
Alhaji Babucarr S Sallah, head of commercial and marketing of the Gambian registered company, Slok Air International, has said that his company will resume normal operations next week.In an interview with the Daily Observer, yesterday...Click

Gambia 'Oil By 2009 Inshallah'
President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh was, on Wednesday, briefed by Roger Haines, chairman of Buried Hill Energy, on the company's latest work on the prospects of drilling for oil in The Gambia. Mr Haines said, last year, using advanced new tecnology on the 'Alhamdullilahi Project', his company was able to identify five distinct plates with 26 prospects of oil production. He noted that this has shown that there is a greater potential for oil in The Gambia than previously thought....Click