Are they the next government? GANU enters the fray as IEC registers party
Gambia Alliance for National Unity has been registered by the Independent Electoral Commission making it the latest political party in The Gambia.
IEC in a statement on Thursday...
ABM’s Mask4All effort sees group donate staggering 5000 face masks to Gambia Red Cross...
By Jaka Ceesay Jaiteh
ABM Covid Gambia on Tuesday 9 June donated 5000 locally made face masks to the Gambia Red Cross Society.
The presentation took place at their...
‘It’s left many of us jobless’: Italy-based Ebrima Drammeh shares that the coronavirus pandemic...
By Fatou Camara
Many Gambians in the diaspora have been without a job due to the coronavirus pandemic, a Gambian living in Italy has said.
Ebrima Drammeh in an...
Four are arrested after they allegedly broke into their employer’s house and took money,...
By Fatou Camara
Four people are arrested after they allegedly broke into their employer's home, the police have said.
Cherno Ngum, Alasana krubally, Alieu Tangara and Yankuba Tangara performed...
‘I think he’s reading another document from Mars’: APRC fact-checks Ba Tambadou – as...
By Lamin Njie
Opposition APRC on Wednesday insisted Attorney General Abubacarr Tambadou might have read another document from planet Mars, as the party fact-checked a statement issued by...
Burundi’s first lady returns after husband’s death
Denise Nkurunziza, the widow of Burundi’s late president, returned home from receiving medical treatment in Kenya hours after the announcement of her husband’s death, the BBC has...
Man arrested after 40 rapes in Nigerian town
Nigerian police say they have arrested a man after 40 people were raped in one town over the period of a year.
A mother in the northern town...
Big Apple writes to GTBoard after RBNA’s claims against the company
Big Apple Ltd has written to the Gambia Tourism Board pushing back at claims by the Restaurant, Bar and Nightclub Association that the company was one of...
Army announces massive blood donation effort
By Lamin Njie
The army has announced it will embark upon a huge blood donation exercise.
In a statement on Wednesday, the army said the donation is in line...
New NPP signboard is mounted as Barrow Fans Club office gets upgraded to party’s...
By Lamin Njie
A new signboard carrying the name of President Adama Barrow's party, the National People's Party, has been installed at the party's office in Churchill's Town.
Photos...
Ismaila Ndong finally appears in court
A 24-year-old man arrested last year over alleged involvement in kidnapping, violent extortion, and rape of women within the Greater Banjul Area and Kanifing have appeared in...
Yankuba Touray loses his no-case-to-answer submission
Ex-AFPRC top military leader Yankuba Touray is set to open his defence in his murder trial after his no-case-to-answer submission was rejected.
The former army captain is standing...
‘It’s utterly unconstitutional’: Madi Jobarteh raises the alarm that President Barrow has no power...
President Adama Barrow has no power to extend his own state of public emergency declaration, prominent commentator Madi Jobarteh has claimed.
"The President has no power to make...
SoPE enters 12th week as President Barrow extends measure by fresh 21 days
President Adama Barrow has declared 21 days of State of Public Emergency effective 10 June. The declaration affects the entire country.
The government through spokesperson Ebrima Sankareh said:...
Carl Paschall explains that America has provided ‘strong’ support to World Bank and IMF...
By Lamin Njie
America's top diplomat in The Gambia has said his country has contributed its modest mound towards The Gambia's COVID-19 response.
"I have to tell you that...
Why were US Democrats wearing Ghana’s kente cloth?
When US Democrats in Congress proposed legislation to reform the police following weeks of protests over the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of...
Powerful Kombo group writes letter to President Barrow over festering land problems
By Lamin Njie
Kombo Yiriwa Kafo has written to President Adama Barrow to 'draw his attention' to the 'many' land disputes in the Kombo part of the country.
"The...
President Barrow pens letter to world leaders over Eidul Fitr
President Adama Barrow has written greeting letters to 17 leaders around the world on the occasion of 2020 Ramadan and Eidul Fitr.
According to State House on Tuesday,...
Sukuta’s LC denies compensation claims – then brands lands ministry officials as ‘land criminals’
By Fatou Camara
Sukuta resident Lamin Cham who the government claimed compensated by giving him 37 plots of land after taking his land elswhere in the town has...
‘There’s no room for that’: Army says it’s the last place coup would come...
By Lamin Njie
The army has said there no room for a coup to take place in the force, rubbishing reports of a takeover.
Wild reports emerged on Sunday...
