Gambia: Foni Beneficiaries Hail SBCC Component of Nafa Project As Transformative

As the Nafa cash transfer program reaches its twelfth payment cycle for extremely poor households across The Gambia, beneficiaries in the Foni District of the West Coast Region… Read more »

Gambia: Mobse Trains Trainers On Utilizing 'I Learn' Gambia Platform

The Directorate of Science and Technology under the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE) has concluded a five-day Training of Trainers (TOT) session aimed at equipping… Read more »

Gambia: Stakeholders Review Progress On Food and Nutrition Security

Project 2 of the Program to Strengthen Resilience on Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Sahel (P2-P2RS) has hosted a two-day working session in Jenoi, in the Lower River Region… Read more »

Gambia: Wacomp-Gambia Awards Outstanding Journalists

West Africa Competitiveness Program-The Gambia (WACOMP-Gambia), in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), have awarded outstanding… Read more »

Senegal: Senegal's Police Chief Visits Gambia to Strengthen Bilateral Ties, Security Collaboration

The Senegalese Inspector General of Police, General Mame Seydou Ndour arrived in The Gambia for a working visit from January 7 to 11, 2025. Read more »

Gambia: Guidance Needed for Mamud Fana Cooperative Marketing Society

A society must have members. It must also have a constitution or bye-laws governing membership. Foroyaa is reliably informed that the registrar general of the department of… Read more »

Gambia: Minister Gomez Urges Moherst Staff to Be Patriotic, Committed to Duty

Kick starting the New Year with a staff retreat at the MoHERST Office in Bijilo, the Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology on Monday, 6 January 2025,… Read more »

Gambia: Expert Presents Report On Gambia's Caste, Descent-Based Discrimination At UN

Alima Taal, a senior rights expert of the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent recently presented a report on caste and descent-based discrimination with… Read more »

Gambia: Legislators Call On Government to Support Farmers to Overcome Poor Harvest

During their closing debate on Monday, 23 December 2024, members of the National Assembly took turns to lament the poor groundnut harvest this season. They also called on the… Read more »

Gambia: Inside Gambia's Transitional Justice Project

The Gambia in 2017 embarked on an ambitious project to investigate past human rights violations committed during the 22-year repressive regime of former President Yahya A.J.J… Read more »

Gambia: Justice Minister to Introduce the Constitution (Promulgation) Bill 2024

The Minister of Justice, Dawda Jallow, is scheduled to introduce the 2024 promulgation bill during the Fourth Ordinary Session of the National Assembly on Monday, 23 December 2024. Read more »

Gambia: The First Reading of the Constitution (Promulgation) Bill

At last, the National Assembly is to have a second chance in exercising oversight on a matter that is the lifeblood of a republic. No republic can exist without a Constitution that… Read more »

Gambia: Sukuta-Salagi Protest Persists Amid Police Intervention

The ongoing tensions surrounding Sukuta-Salagi Forest took a new turn on Saturday as community members and environmentalists defied police intervention to address their concerns… Read more »

Gambia: Question of The Day - What Is the Next Stage of the TRRC Process in the Gambia

A press release has been issued indicating readiness to establish an international tribunal in the country to handle cases identified by the TRRC in The Gambia. The press release… Read more »

Gambia: GCCI Holds Forum to Boost Businesses

The Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), on Thursday, 12 December 2024, hosted a business forum as part of their efforts to empower and educate their members by focusing… Read more »

Gambia: Budget Deficit Expected to Slow Down to 5.1 Billion

The Gambia's Finance Minister, Seedy Keita, has said that overall budget deficit is expected to slow down to D5.1 billion. Read more »

West Africa: Ecowas Parliament Approves Budget of Over 418 Million UA

The ECOWAS Parliament adopted its budget of four hundred and eighteen million, sixty-two thousand and nine hundred and twenty-seven UA (418,062,927 Unit of Accounts) for the 2025… Read more »

Gambia: Mobse Launches Africa's First Master's Program in Emis to Advance Data-Driven Education

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Gambia: The Need for More Revelation in the Budget Speech

The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs has made it very clear that for 2024, expenditure is expected to exceed revenue by 7.2 billion dalasi. According to him, Read more »

Gambia: Supreme Court Hears Case Challenging Criminalisation of Female Circumcision

The five panel of judges of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Hassan B. Jallow has given time for people seeking the court to declare the criminalisation of female… Read more »

Gambia: Report On Appointment Into Victim's Reparation Commission Laid Before Parliament

Justice Minister Dawda A. Jallow has laid a report on the appointment of members to the Victim's Reparation Commission on Saturday, December 7th, 2024, for parliamentary scrutiny,… Read more »

Africa: Incumbency Is Being Defied By Voters in Africa

The victory of PASTEF in the presidential election in Senegal and the victories of the opposition in Botswana and Ghana appear to be shaping a trend where opposition parties are… Read more »

Gambia: Expelled Touma Njai Wins Case Against PPP

Fatoumatta Njai alias Touma Njai has won a landmark case against her political party (PPP) as the court held that the expulsion from the party was null and void. Read more »

Gambia: Scramble for Passports

The announcement that there is a legal way to go to Saudi Arabia and Spain for employment has motivated young men and women to start scrambling for passports in order not to be… Read more »

Gambia: The Constitution and the National Assembly

The nation should be informed that the two steps that must be taken for The Constitution of The Republic of The Gambia (Promulgation) Bill, 2024 to be tabled for the first reading… Read more »