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Military Scholarship for GAF 3
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, March 05, 2008
hree young soldiers of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) have received a four-year military training scholarship from the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Daily Observer can ... more
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President Jammeh Receives Students Award
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, March 05, 2008
he National Union of Gambia Students (NUGS) has granted the Man of the Students Year Award to President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, in recognition and appreciation of his tireless efforts in assisting students of The Gambia and for pushing The Gambia's academic and professional education to higher ... more
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Commonwealth? What Commonwealth!
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, March 05, 2008
ne African brother, dressed in a crisp English blue suit and blue tie, walked into the Daily Observer offices yesterday and tried to hassle free coverage for the Commonwealth Secretary General's annual statement. Look, we said, "Can't the mighty Commonwealth, based in the most expensive square mile of London, St... more
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Respect Cultural And Traditional Norms Speaker Tells Child Rights Group
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, March 05, 2008
he speaker of the National Assembly, Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, has told members of the Youth Talent Organisation, a child rights advocary group to show greater respect to cultural and traditional norms in society in promoting rights in the country. To her, any form of advocacy should be in line with the... more
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Criminal Charges Reinstated Against Former 'Daily Observer' Editor
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, March 05, 2008
n 25 February 2008, Mam Sait Ceesay, a former editor in chief of the "Daily Observer", a Banjul-based pro-government newspaper, was again arraigned before a Banjul Magistrate Court over charges of publishing false ... more
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March in Memory of the 44 Citizens Killed in The Gambia
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, March 05, 2008
n memory of the 44 Ghanaians and 6 other African nationals killed in July, 2005, in The Gambia the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), Africa Office, will on Wednesday, March 12, 2008, hold a march in Accra from ... more
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How Levy Graced Gambia's 43rd Independence Anniversary
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, March 05, 2008
ITH a population of 1.7 million and total area of 11,295 square kilometers, Gambia is one of Africa's smallest ... more
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Former Intelligence Officer Tortured, May Die
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
ormer 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... more
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U.S. Ambassador Urgest Govt to Value Free Press
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
media workshop on covering human rights issues organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat together with the British High Commission and the US Embassy opened in The Gambian town of Serekkunda, on 4 March with a call on journalists to take every opportunity to learn the skills and principles of responsibly... more
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A Question for KMC And NEA
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
ven after the signing of the Anti-littering Bill by the president of the Republic and the ensuing national debate on the significance of such legislation, the pattern of deception by enemies of progress remains ... more
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Carnegie MD's Bail Appeal Rejected
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
ustice Na Ceesay Sallah-Wadda, a presiding judge at the Banjul High Court, yesterday struck out the application for the review of the bail condition for Andrew Charles Northfield, the managing director of Carnegie Minerals Gambia ... more
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Little Jainaba Update Prognosis Not Good
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
s Kanyi of Standard Chartered Bank went to Dakar, Senegal, this weekend to see Little Jainaba's medical team and the news is not ... more
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GPU Executive Failed Us Baboucarr Trawally
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
renown Gambian photojournalist and a senior member of the Gambia Press Union (GPU) described the three-year term of the current executive of GPU as an "abysmal failure", utterly blaming the executive for not living up to ... more
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ICM Chief Extols Performance, Meets WAEC, NTA, Others
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
he newly-appointed chief executive officer of the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM), England, yesterday ended a fact-finding visit to The Gambia, extolling the country for its impressive scores in the ICM-conducted advanced professional ... more
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Gamtel Goes Bankrupt Again!!
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
arely less than one year, after Gambia's main telecommunication GAMTEL was privatized, the Company has went bankrupt, according to highly placed company officials, who spoke to the Freedom ... more
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Gambia: Country Gets $28 Million Assistance to Fight Poverty
Topix - Monday, March 03, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"It will allow us to align our development programme, avoid duplication of efforts, and combine our technical expertise" The Gambia has benefited about $28 million from the World Bank and the African Development Bank Joint Assistance Strategy to support the implementation of the country's Poverty Reduction... more
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64 "Almudus" Deported
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 03, 2008
ecurity agents working for the Gambia Immigration Department on Tuesday 26 February, rounded up 67 "Almudus" (children beggars), within the city of ... more
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Journalist Fatty's Appeal Called in Chambers
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 03, 2008
he criminal appeal case of journalist Lamin Fatty, of The Independent Newspaper, which is now closed, was on Thursday, 28 February called in chambers at the Banjul High Court presided over by Justice Naceesay Salla ... more
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Charge d'Affaires Re-Appears in
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 03, 2008
oses Benjamin Jallow, the charge d'affaires of the Gambia's Embassy in France has testified that he does not know the date of the termination of the services of Michel Coencas and Michel Athias, both employed by the said ... more
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Two Faces of the Executive
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 03, 2008
hen the President was swearing in two Supreme Court judges recently, he declared his support for the independence of the judiciary and pledged not to interfere with the work of the judiciary. But did he really mean what he said? Well, let us look at the facts since ... more
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