Ecowas leaders hold summit on Eco – and President Barrow tells meeting Gambia is...
President Adama Barrow has told his colleague Heads of State and Government that The Gambia remains committed to achieving the goals of the ECOWAS single currency, the...
Flight carrying ‘150’ passengers lands at Banjul International Airport
By Fatou Camara
An SN Brussels flight Monday evening landed at Banjul International Airport with 150 passengers onboard, despite the border closure and international travel ban due to...
Kombo – My Land, My Life, My Economy
To: Cousin Malamin Jammeh, South Korea
Date: June 23, 2020
Dear Malamin
Kombo will never be the way it used to be 30 years ago. This is because of globalization,...
Andersen Global Enters Key Market in The Gambia
Press release
Andersen Global announces its entrance into the Gambian market by way of a Collaboration Agreement with Fajara Chambers, a law firm based in Fajara, continuing its...
A case of enough is enough? Gym owners arrested after they opened their gyms...
By Lamin Njie
Some gym owners in the country have been arrested after they opened their gyms in defiance of lockdown rules.
Gym owners have been feeling the full...
Drivers drop strike after summit with nation’s top civil servant
By Lamin Njie
Drivers have suspended their sit-down strike after a meeting with the nation's top civil servant.
Noah Touray met with leaders of the country's drivers at State...
Gambia’s coronavirus cases jump to 41 as four people including six-month-old test positive for...
The nation's coronavirus cases have jumped to 41 following the registry of four new cases.
The ministry of health said on Monday four people including a six-month-old baby...
Gambian Talents cameraman released after arrest by police over video he took of PIU...
Police have released Ebou N keita following his arrest on Monday, the Gambia Press Union has said.
The Gambian Talents cameraman was arrested by police at Tabokoto Monday...
Mambury Njie and World Bank chief sign 1.7 billion dalasis grant to support Gambia’s...
Finance Minister Mambury Njie and the World Bank Country Director Nathan Belete on Monday signed a $35 million (1.7 billion dalasis) grant to support the country’s efforts...
NPP’s Seedy Njie says Mamma Kandeh is ‘scared and paranoid’ – then declares ‘it’s...
By Lamin Njie
National People's Party's Seedy Njie has shot back at Mamma Kandeh saying the GDC leader was preying on the death of Demba Sowe politically.
Mamma Kandeh...
Parks stripped bare of cars as huge drivers’ strike begins
By Matty Senghore
Car parks in the Greater Banjul Area have been stripped bare of cars amid the commencement of a huge strike by drivers.
Drivers have been complaining...
21-year-old Senegalese-Gambian shot and killed in UK
A Senegalese-Gambian has died after being shot in the head in UK, sources close to his family have told The Fatu Network.
Sheriff Taal, 21, died in hospital...
‘They drive million-dalasi cars’: Musa Batchilly says Barrow is surrounded by pocket reformers
By Lamin Njie
GAP chief Musa Batchilly has said President Adama Barrow's aides are only there to 'reform' their pockets.
"I respect Mr President Barrow but his surrounders are...
Mamma Kandeh says NPP brought motorbikes to Niamina while Demba Sowe’s death was still...
GDC leader Mamma Kandeh has said President Adama Barrow's party, the National People's Party, stormed Niamina West less than 40 days of Demba Sowe's passing.
Niamina West has...
Second man dies from coronavirus – but health ministry moves quickly to reveal man...
An advanced-age man has succumbed to coronavirus, the ministry of health has said.
The ministry in its latest report on Saturday said one new laboratory confirmed case of...
Government is asked to protect the rights of Ahmadiyyas and the Seckens of Kerr...
The Gambia government has been asked to guarantee and protect the rights of the people of Kerr Mot Ali and members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.
The people...
Rights commission says it’s ‘deeply’ concerned by release of four junglers
The National Human Rights Commission has said it is 'deeply' concerned by the release of four soldiers that formed part of former President Yahya Jammeh's elite death...
Bakawsu Fofana says homosexuality is final agenda West is attempting to sell to Gambia
Imam Bakawsu Fofana has chipped into the homosexuality debate, claiming it's the last-level agenda the West is trying to sell to the country.
"No Muslim should accept it,"...
NHRC recommends criminalisation of torture – as it says it got reports torture was...
The National Human Rights Commission has called on the Gambia government to amend the criminal code and criminalise torture.
The commission in its annual report said reports reached...
UTG students brand online lessons as new world – as exams looms
By Fatou Camara
Students of the University of The Gambia have described how they have been adjusting to online life following its introduction almost two months ago.
UTG students...
