December 18, 2022
Gambia: State Withdraws Charges Against Sainabou Mbye and Co.
The State has on Friday filed a nolle prosequi in the criminal trial of Sainabou Mbye, Cherno Mbye, and Kibily Dambelly in the High Court presided over by Justice Ebrima Jaiteh.… Read more »
December 16, 2022
Gambia: IMF Approves U.S.$27 Million (D1675 Million) for the Gambia
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Wednesday, 14th December 2022, announced the approval of US$27.41 million disbursement for the Gambia, by the Executive Board of the… Read more »
Gambia: Human Rights Committee Call On Police Not to Inflict Inhumane Treatment On Detainees
The Human Rights Committee of the National Assembly has recommended for the Gambia Police Force (GPF) to desist from inflicting any inhumane and degrading treatment on detainees… Read more »
Gambia: When Will the UNHCR Issue a Statement On the Shooting of Four Persons, Three of Whom Died?
It is being reported in the Gambian and Senegalese media in different ways. Nonetheless the bodies have been interned without any indication that autopsy has been done by either… Read more »
Gambia: No Need to Separate Mayoral and Other Council Elections
The separation of mayoral and other council elections did create an absurd situation that has never been interrogated. Even before the Supreme Court declared section 9A of the… Read more »
November 11, 2022
Gambia: Acting Health Promotion Directo rUpdates On COVID-19 Vaccination
Sanjally Trawally, the new Acting Director of Health Promotion, said an estimated total of 84 thousand school children both in conventional and non-conventional schools, have been… Read more »
September 30, 2022
Gambia: The Lessons of Three Years Jotna and Five Years jotut
The remarks of the President on a recent demonstration need further clarification and elucidation. Read more »
Gambia: Human Rights
"PIU Officers Involved in Faraba Banta Incident Interdicted" Read more »
August 19, 2022
Gambia: Floods and Inundation
Welcome to another edition of the Environment Column and in this edition, we will profile and comment on the unprecedented devastating floods of 30th and 31st July 2022, which… Read more »
Gambia: Nian Sarang Jobe Narrates How Deyda Was Killed
Nian Sarang Jobe, the former staff of The Point, has narrated before the Court of Celle, Germany, how Deyda Hydara was killed on 16 December 2004 in a trial involving ex-'jungler'… Read more »
Gambia: Court Asks Lamin Mboge to Open Defence in His Criminal Trial
Chief Magistrate Omar Cham of the Banjul Magistrates' Court recently ordered Lamin Mboge, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gam Housing to open his defence in his ongoing… Read more »
Gambia: Not Easy to Escape the Long Arm of Justice Nowadays
It is often said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. When a person becomes drunk with power he/she sees only his/her might and nothing else. Such a person… Read more »
Gambia: KMC Mayor Launches D45 Million Modern Library Project
Talib Ahmed Bensouda, the Mayor of Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC), on Thursday, August 18, 2022 laid the foundation stone for construction of a modern library worth D45 million. Read more »
Gambia: Police Get New PRO
Superintendent (Spt) Lamin Njie on Thursday 18th August 2022, confirmed to this Medium that one Cadet Assistant Superintendent Binta Njie of the Gambia Police Force, is the newly… Read more »
August 18, 2022
Gambia: Philanthropist Provides Scan Machine to Reduce Suffering of Antenatal Mothers in Sukuta
Sukuta Health Center had been grappling with a lack of medical equipment for many years. Philanthropist Basiru Barrow, a native of Sukuta, has provided his community with a… Read more »
August 17, 2022
Africa: Millions More Children to Benefit From Malaria Vaccine
With malaria as one of the biggest killers of children under 5, the world's first vaccine against the malaria parasite is a major breakthrough for child health, and UNICEF has… Read more »
Gambia: NAM for Serrekunda Donates Food Items to Flood Victims
The National Assembly Member for Serrekunda Musa Cham, on Sunday 14th August 2022, donated food items and five hundred dalasi cash to each of the thirty affected flood victims of… Read more »
Gambia: Tujereng Gardeners Call for Remedy After Devastating Flood
Tujereng women gardeners have recently called on the government to remedy their devastating situation that occurred due to the July 2022 flooding that affected their garden… Read more »
Gambia: State, Defence Counsels Share Letters On DNA Sample Collection
Both State and Defence Lawyers in Bubacar Keita's rape trial have shared letters on the 11th of August 2022, concerning the biological sample collection of Baby M and the mother… Read more »
Gambia: Banjul Flood Victims Yet to Return to Their Homes
Victims of the recent floods in Banjul Box Bar area, are yet to return to their homes after taking sanctuary in St. Augustine Senior Secondary School. Read more »
Gambia: Jabang Estate Residents Ask for More Help After July Flood Ruined Their Homes
The residents of Janbang Estate on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 called on the government to urgently come to their aid and address their problems after flood ruined homes and… Read more »
August 15, 2022
Gambia: State, Defence Share Letters On DNA Sample Collection
State and Defence Lawyers in Bubacar Keita's rape trial have shared letters on the 11th of August 2022, concerning the biological sample collection of Baby M and the mother (the… Read more »
Gambia: Urban Planning in Crisis
Banjul is the capital city of The Gambia. Every government has the duty to bring about urban and rural development. A government which is democratic must formulate policies that… Read more »
Gambia: Desperate Women Vendors Urge BAC to Help Solve Market Dispute in Salagi
Women vendors, who were taken by surprise a few weeks ago when officers from the Department of Physical Planning demolished their canteens and tables, on Friday called on the… Read more »
Gambia: Magistrate Bars Construction Within 20 Metres of Disputed Land
Magistrate Peter Adoh Che of the Brikama Magistrates' Court recently gave an order that any person who constructs within the twenty metre fire belt of the suit land, commits… Read more »