August 22, 2023
Gambia: Budget Execution
The government of the Gambia has suspended foreign travels by public servants in order to cut down on expenditure. However, Foroyaa is not aware of any review made by the minister… Read more »
Gambia: Plantation Nurseries Signs MOU With British High Commissioner
Plantation Nurseries Friday 18th August, 2023 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the British High Commission for the funding of a one-year Community Environmental… Read more »
Gambia: Jabang-Estate Residents Express Dissatisfaction On Level of Ongoing Drainage Work
Despite recently acknowledging the temporary stoppage of flooding at the Jabang-Estate, the community had once again expressed their dissatisfaction with the rate of the ongoing… Read more »
Gambia: Government Approves Banjul Port Expansion And Sanyang Deep Seaport Development
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July 24, 2023
Gambia: 'BAC Ledger Indicates Over D9 Million Spent On Purchase of Fuel'
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July 05, 2023
Gambia: 'Price Hike Not a Home Grown Factor'
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Gambia: IMF Wraps up Discussions On Extended Credit Facility for Gambia
The International Monetary Funds (IMF) has recently wrapped up discussions for the Sixth Review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement for The Gambia. The Mission in… Read more »
July 06, 2023
Gambia: Pedestrians Without Sidewalks
The KMC was expected to indicate what the new council would do in one hundred days so that the media would monitor their programme. One expected that the primary task would be to… Read more »
June 06, 2023
Gambia: Central Bank and the New Currency
According to section 161 of the Constitution, the Central Bank has the responsibility to issue currency in the country. The Jammeh administration was here for 22 years but left old… Read more »
June 05, 2023
Gambia: FGRA Commissioner General Receives Honorary Award From QCell
The Commissioner General (CG) of the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), Yankuba Darboe, has been conferred an honorary award by QCell on the occasion of the official launching of the… Read more »
May 08, 2023
Gambia: President Barrow Inaugurates 30 KV Power Line
President Adama Barrow, on Saturday, 6th May launched a 30KV power line covering LaminKoto to Diabugu-Batapa. Read more »
April 25, 2023
Gambia: Registrar of Companies Removed From His Position After He Decline to Register Vista Bank
Registrar of Companies Alieu Jallow has been removed from his position by his superiors at the State Law Office after he declined to execute what he called illegal instructions… Read more »
March 14, 2023
Gambia: Deputies Adopt Report On New Labour Bill
Deputies at the National Assembly on Monday 13th March 2023, adopted the report of the Trade and Regional Integration Committee on the new Labour Bill 2022, with the objective of… Read more »
March 06, 2023
Gambia: GRA, GIEPA Sign MOU to Solidify Relationship
Officials of the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) on Thursday 2nd February 2023, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gambia Investment and Export Promotion Agency… Read more »
Gambia: Petrol Still Not Available in Many Fuel Stations
In the wake of petrol shortage in the country, Foroyaa has learnt from drivers and commuters that petrol is still not available in many fuel stations in the country. Read more »
Gambia: Eco-Bank Wins Largest Taxpayer Award
Ecobank Gambia Ltd has been named by the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) at Kairaba beach hotel as winner of the most compliant taxpayer of the year 2022. Qcell GSM Ltd grabbed the… Read more »
January 25, 2023
Gambia: Trade Minister Continues Industrial Tour
Continuing his industrial tour of manufacturing houses across the country, Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof, the Minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment (MoTIE),… Read more »
Gambia: Forum On Co-Management of Mangroves for Women Shell-Fishers Held
'Try Oyster' association together with the University of Cape Coast in Ghana; Development Action Association (DAA ); World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and the University of Rhode Island… Read more »
January 19, 2023
Gambia: Finance Minister Promises to Address Delay in Payment for Faraba Banta UTG Works
The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Seedy Keita, has promised to address the delay in the payment for the works at the University of the Gambia Faraba Campus, to avoid… Read more »
January 20, 2023
Gambia: Trade Minister Embarks On Industrial Tour
The Ministry of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment (MoTIE), have reported that Minister Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof, the new Minister holding the portfolio at the above… Read more »
January 19, 2023
Gambia: MoFEA Hosts Ministers On TAA Steering Committee
The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Seedy Keita, in partnership with the Resident Representative of the World Bank Group in the Gambia and the United Nations Resident… Read more »
Gambia: Government Partly Resolves Cash Drought in URR Seccos
The Gambia Government has managed to resolve cash drought issue in the Upper River Region (URR), by disbursing cash to many of them Seccos. However, the only known Secco with cash… Read more »
January 18, 2023
Gambia: IMF's Chief of Mission Acknowledges Government's Effort to Advance Reforms
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Mission Chief Olivier Basdevant, has acknowledged government's effort in advancing many reforms, adding that part of their mission is to… Read more »
January 16, 2023
Gambia: Diaspora Remittance in 2022 Stands At U.S.$712 Million
Interim figures show that 2022 diaspora remittances to The Gambia stand at seven hundred and twelve million, four hundred and fifty thousand (712,450,000) US dollars, which amounts… Read more »
January 13, 2023
Gambia: Gambia Vows to Strengthen Maritime Security to End Drug Trafficking
The Government of The Gambia through the Ministry of Interior, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Expertise France to implement SEACOP V in The Gambia. The signing… Read more »