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by Alieu Ceesay Investigations has revealed that the Ministry of Youth Sports has 'spent over D800, 000’ to secure 10 air tickets from Satguru Travel Agency. The said...

PRESS RELEASE, GAMBIA POLICE FORCE   The office of the IGP regret to inform the General public that the permit issued by the office of the IGP to team...

By Omar Wally The outgoing Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent Foday Conta, has confirmed to The Fatu Network, that the permit issued to the organizers of #Occupy...

By Jamal Drammeh Polarity is the natural law that unites the ‘opposing’ forces or elements of nature to allow existence, and to maintain creation. It is the regenerative...

By Sheriff Kora Tyler, Texas   Gambia’s democratic transition is back in the limelight, and the political debate this time is not centered around the callousness of a bloodthirsty dictator....

Fajara, 10th November 2017 PRESS RELEASE The General Public is here by informed that His Excellency, Mr. Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of The Gambia, acting under the...

Lawyer Chime, the defense counsel of former NIA Director General Yankuba Badjie has said his client will not succumb to trial by surprise. Chime made objection to the...

By Omar Wally Despite the controversy over her appointment as the country number 2, Fatoumatta Jallow Tambajang is the first Gambian to be appointed by President Adama Barrow....

The Gambian Vice President, Her Excellency Madam Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang, is scheduled to meet with victims of human rights violations at the Victims' Center on Wednesday, November...

By Jamal Drammeh 'We need fuel to make fire!' If government is the fire, the fuel that makes it possible is the society. Government and society rise...

I write with scathing rage as to the high level of drugs abuse and that of prostitution among the country’s youths tearing-down lives & families apart. In...

In the New Gambia, we envisage a kind of police services that is apolitical and non-partisan and only dedicated to the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms....

Justice Kumba Sillah Camara of the Banjul High Court has revoked the bail of Lamin Lang Sanyang, former medic of the notorious National Intelligence Agency NIA. Sanyang is...

The two major ingredients that are indispensable prerequisites for socio-economic development of any modern nation are electricity and roads. Hence if there is anything that Barrow needs...

PRESS RELEASE FROM GPF It has come to the notice of the office of the Inspector General of Police that certain individuals are posting on the social media,...

By Sana Sarr Imagine... - Young Gambians apply for a permit to #OccupyWestfield... - The government issues them a permit... - The government provides security to work with the protesters... - 10...

Interior Minister Mai Ahmad Fatty on Thursday called on the European Union to act in partnership on the root causes of migration, as he declared open a two-day validation workshop on the draft national migration policy of The Gambia.  The European Union has been working with African countries to curb the sick issue of mass migration, and The Gambia remains the bloc’s closest partner.  In a speech at Kairaba Beach Hotel Minister Fatty said: “We urge our European partners to act in partnership on the root causes of migration; poverty, climate change, lack of democratic spaces, violations of human rights, and opportunities for life.”  The Gambia remains a migrant producing nation and has in the past decade lost a swathe of her young citizens to the ‘back way.’   But according to Minister Fatty, the government through the Ministry of the Interior has now for the first time in migration annals in The Gambia developed a national policy document to help curb the  phenomenon.   He said: “This policy should be anchored on the ideals of African solidarity as well as shared values, and informed by existing African Union frameworks including the AU Migration Policy Framework  for Africa, the African Common Position on Migration and Development of 2006, the Common African Perspective for Valetta Summit on Migration of 2015, and Agenda 2063.”     The European Union Ambassador to The Gambia Attila Lajos told participants that migration was not a recent concern for the EU.   An international summit to discuss migration issues between EU and African leaders took place in Valletta, Malta, in November 2015 and Ambassador Lajos said countries committed to address the root causes of irregular migration.  And Lajos added: “We want to work with you. Tomorrow I will have the pleasure of joining Honourable Minister Fatty and Madam Chief of Mission [for International Organisation for Migration for the launch ceremony of the EU-IOM initiative for migrant protection and reintegration in Africa under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, which will surely reinforce the cooperation between the EU and The Gambia on migration management.”  Earlier, Fumiko Nagano, Chief of Mission for the International Organisation for Migration said the workshop provided a platform for relevant stakeholders to review, amend and validate the draft National Migration Policy before its endorsement for implementation.   She said: “As migration is a cross-cutting theme, the development of comprehensive and holistic systems that protect the rights of migrants and ensure that migration is both safe and beneficial for the migrants and the country as a whole would require a whole-of-government approach.” Bulli Dibba the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior said The Gambia can’t afford to ignore migration and its impact.   “It has become imperative for the country to be more proactive in developing programmes to harness the benefits of organized migration for national development in line with the transformation agenda of  President Adama Barrow,” he added.   

The Organizers of Occupy Westfield, a group of young people who recently launched a social media campaign to protest against the water and electricity shortages on Sunday...

Bukavu/Geneva/New York, 2 November 2017  For immediate distribution   In the village of Kavumu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), families once endured the unspeakable: children abducted in the...

By Omar Wally Assistant Superintendent Foday Conta, spokesperson for Gambia Police Force, has told The Fatu Network, that the Police are yet to Issue permit to Occupy Westfiled...