December 01, 2022
Gambia: Chinese Ambassador Hands Over Rice Seed Varieties to Barrow
His Excellency, Liu Jin, the Chinese ambassador to The Gambia has recently handed over nine metric tons of Pedi rice and six metric tons of inbreed rice seed varieties to President… Read more »
Gambia: Cyber Security Burnout Is Real - and It's Going to Be a Problem for All of Us!
With the number of data breaches in 2021 soaring past that of 2020, there is even more pressure on security teams to keep businesses secure in 2022. Read more »
November 30, 2022
Gambia: Damen Shipyards Foreign Bribery Case Shocks GPA
The Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) says it has learnt with dismay an online publication purportedly associating the GPA in "fraudulent tender practices" with DAMEN Shipyards, and in… Read more »
November 21, 2022
Gambia: D36.8 Million New Brikama Market Is Now Completed
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Gambia: Employment Policy Targets 150K Jobs in 5 Yrs - Barrow
President Adama Barrow has stated that the National Employment Policy and Action Plan is to form the cornerstone to tackle unemployment and to improve living standards in the… Read more »
Gambia: GPA Staff Association Holds AGM
As part of accountability and transparency purposes, The Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) Staff Association recently held its Annual General Meeting at the GPA premises. Read more »
November 17, 2022
Gambia: Packaging Hub for Small Businesses Inaugurated
The European Union funded Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) on Tuesday inaugurated the country's first packaging hub aimed at improving the packaging capacity of Micro Small and… Read more »
November 16, 2022
Gambia: UP Visits Wet Season Onion Production Sites in LRR, CRR
United Purpose, a co-implementer of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme-The Gambia (WACOMP-GM) last Wednesday embarked on two-day farmer study-tour to two of its wet-season… Read more »
November 15, 2022
Gambia: Gambia Registers Low Revenue Outturn in 2022
Seedy Keita, the minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, while tabling the country's current Estimates of Revenues, Recurrent and Development Expenditures of the republic for… Read more »
West Africa: Gambia Hosts 2nd ERERA Forum
The Gambia Public Utility and Regulatory Authority recently hosted the second ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA) held at the Kairaba Conference Center in… Read more »
Gambia: Assembly Committee to Engage Govt Over Delay of 20 OIC Road Contracts
The National Assembly select committee on government projects, monitoring and implementation, has said it will engage the ministry of works on the huge delay of works on the 20 OIC… Read more »
Gambia: Over D1.2 Billion Kiang West Road Project On Course
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Gambia: 2023 Expenditures Projected to Increase By D3.77b
Finance and Economic Minister Seedy Keita on Monday told deputies at the National Assembly that the country's expenditure is projected to increase by D3.77 billion in 2023 (or 13%… Read more »
November 14, 2022
Gambia: Oil Increment Affects Costs of Energy Supply for Electricity Companies, Says Erera Chairman
ERERA Chairman, Laurent Kocou Rodrigue Tossou, has said that due to rising oil prices, there is an increase in the costs of energy supply for states and production costs for… Read more »
Gambia: Internet Society Gambia Holds Online Webinar On Internet Safety, Encryption
Internet Society, Gambia Chapter, recently organised a webinar in commemoration of global cyber security awareness to switch on or promote the use of encryption under the theme:… Read more »
West Africa: W/Africa Electricity Authority Meets President Barrow
ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA) delegation on Friday paid President Adama Barrow a courtesy call at State House as part of events marking the 7th ERERA… Read more »
Gambia: KMC Lays D6 Million Recreational Park Foundation Stone Bakau
The Lord Mayor of the Kanifing Municipal Council, Talib Ahmed Bensouda on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Bakau recreational park which is under the… Read more »
Gambia: CG Darboe Urges Gambians to Focus More On Domestic Revenue
Commissioner General for the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), Yankuba Darboe, has urged Gambians to take a new paradigm shift in giving more attention to local domestic revenue… Read more »
Senegal: ADB to Finance Construction of Bissau-Dakar Road
The African Development Bank (ADB) will finance the construction of the Bissau-Dakar road corridor with $100.73 million allocated for the completion of the Farim-Tanaff-Sandinieri… Read more »
November 11, 2022
Gambia: Trade Ministry, Stakeholders to Develop National Laboratory Policy
The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment (MOTIE), in collaboration with the West Africa Competitiveness Programme-The Gambia (WACOMP-GM), recently… Read more »
Gambia: Tallinding South Park Foundation Stone Laid
Talib Ahmed Bensouda, mayor of Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC), on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for Tallinding South Park which will have children playing ground, pitch and a… Read more »
Gambia: FAO, Dept of Fisheries Take Legal Review On PSMA
Department of Fisheries in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday commenced a three-day interagency review of the Port State Measures Agreement… Read more »
November 10, 2022
Gambia: Livestock Dept. Ends Training for Livestock Farmers
At least 150 livestock farmers drawn from the six agricultural regions of the country have wrapped a 15-day capacity building on small ruminant production and productivity at the… Read more »
November 08, 2022
Gambia: Trade Ministry Committed to Ensuring Availability of Essential Commodities
The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment (MOTIE) continues to remain committed to ensuring that essential commodities are available, accessible, and… Read more »
Gambia: Banto Kunku Youth Furious Over Abuse of Quarry
There is growing anger among the youth in the coastal community of Bato Kunku at what they called 'abuse at the village quarry' by Gimcom Sand Mining Company. Read more »