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Agriculture is key to sustaining any national economy. It is the perfect channel to food security and food self-sufficiency. Whilst it is strategic for a national economy to diversify, it is equally significant for it to put more weight on the agricultural sector. It is the foundation upon which all other developments are built.
Concern Universal (CU), yesterday, commenced a two-day community driven Alternative Energy Forum. It was held at The Gambia Is Good (GIG) farmyard in Yundum.
Youssou Ndure, the internationally renowned Senegalese mbalax super star, has joined the list of eminent pan-Africanists calling for a united Africa.
Relations between the governments of The Gambia and Ghana took a rather renewed congenial status with a recent brotherly meeting between the leaders of the two countries, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh and Professor John Atta Mills.
The vice president and minister for Women's Affairs, Her Excellency Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, has stated that effective administration and management is a fundamental prerequisite towards enhancing sports development.
ARENA UN-LEX Group, a Spanish railway construction group and partner to Bati Group in Senegal, yesterday presented proposed designs of housing and railway projects to the Gambian leader, Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, at State House in Banjul.
The dalasi is on the up and registers more gains Good Wednesday morning Gambia and welcome to the Dalasi Update (DUD).
The Daily Observer's ongoing July 22 bus initiative, a series of newspaper publications highlighting achievements registered by this government since July 1994 across the length and breadth of the country, has been receiving commendation from across the country and beyond, both in words and in writing.
The most efficient resource for producing the sustainable socio-economic transformation of any nation is a healthy populace. In fact, the health status of the people of any given nation is in itself an indicator of growth and progress since it can be a parameter to gauge the participation of their development process. As such, any government investing in the health needs of a nation can be ...
The Upper River Region Rice Farmers Association, has hailed the Taiwanese Technical Mission in Sapu, Central River Region, for their commitment in boosting rice production in the region, especially the new rice for Africa (NERICA) variety.
Members of the Basse Youth Development Association (BYDA), recently embarked on a cleansing exercise at the Basse praying ground. Over 300 members of the BYDA attended the cleansing exercise.
The president of the Republic, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, yesterday received in audience, Bishop Dr David Oyedepo, chancellor of Covenant University in Lagos, Nigeria.
In Kantora; and the story here is no different from that of the rest of the places in URR where we have visited so far, except that we are poised to make more life changing revelations as regard the standards of living of the people in this part of the country. The power station in Basse supplies all the settlement in the region of URR which have benefited from the Rural Electrification Project ...
In its continued show of support to member countries in the fight against poverty and household food insecurity amidst the continued dire economic situations the world over, the FAO Gambia office, under its Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) on inputs supply, as part of its initiative on soaring food prices, last Tuesday presented some production inputs, worth over D6.5 million, to the Ministry ...
Following a court appearance on Jul. 3, six of the seven Gambian journalists who arrested and charged with sedition last month were again sent to Mile 2 Prison.
The National Assembly Member for Wuli West, Hon Sidia Jatta, and the Majority Leader and Member for SereKunda East, Hon Fabakary Tombong Jatta, expressed divergent views on the sacking of the Chief Justice, Abdoukarim Savage, relying on section 141 of the 1997 constitution.
'Representatives from Amnesty International, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) will this afternoon petition the Gambian High Commission in London to put a stop to the trial of seven journalists that is scheduled to begin in the Gambia today.
The Daily Graphic last Friday carried a front page story about the resolution of the case involving the murder of 44 Ghanaians by security personnel in Gambia. The story was accompanied by a picture of a broadly smiling President Mills, shaking hands with the Gambian leader, President Yahaya Jemmeh. When the story hit the news stand, majority of the electronic media did not take kindly to it. To ...
The case of the seven journalists, namely; Ebrima Sawaneh, News Editor of The Point newspaper; Pap Saine, Editor of The Point newspaper; Sarata Jabbi Dibba, GPU Vice President; Pa Modou Faal, GPU Treasurer; Abubacarr Saidykhan of the Foroyaa; Sam Sarr, Managing Editor of Foroyaa and Emil Touray, Secretary General of GPU, were recently arraigned before the Senior Magistrate Sainabou Wadda-Ceesay at ...
State prosecutors have filed charges at the High Court in Banjul against the seven journalists who appeared recently before the Kanifing Magistrates' Court on sedition related charges. The prosecutors retained the three sedition related charges and added two more charges relating to defamation.
Demolition exercises are now becoming a pattern in the country. Buyers of land are encouraged to purchase land by local authorities who endorse land acquisition and receive payment of yard rates for years.
The executive committee of the Network of Human Rights Journalists (NHRJ) The Gambia is once again renewing their call for the immediate release of missing journalist Chief Ebrima B. Manneh, a Senior Journalist and Columnist of the Daily Observer Newspaper, who went missing since July, 2006, after leaving his home for work. He was said to have been picked up at his office by plain clothed security ...
The seven remanded journalists who have been arrested, detained and charged before the Kanifing Magistrates' Court were initially granted bail on the 18th of June 2009. They were to appear before the said court on the 7th of July 2009 to take their plea.
Reliable information monitored by Foroyaa has it that two year state detainees, Mr. Samsideen Jammeh and Kebba Seckan, are now charged with terrorism after spending two years in state custody without any charges brought against them. The duo were charged alongside 14 other Gambians and Senegalese citizens.
The case of the seven journalists, namely; Ebrima Sawaneh, News Editor of The Point newspaper; Pap Saine, Editor of The Point newspaper; Sarata Jabbi Dibba, GPU Vice President; Pa Modou Faal, GPU Treasurer; Abubacarr Saidykhan of the Foroyaa; Sam Sarr, Managing Editor of Foroyaa and Emil Touray, Secretary General of GPU, were recently arraigned on three sedition related charges before the Senior ...
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