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When uncompromising women's rights activist, Dr Isatou Touray, tells you “Of course yes” the subject is obvious: women's development and empowerment. Even the likelihood of a woman in running for president, which, for many Gambians, is a far away dream, Dr Touray does not rule it out as early as the 2016 general elections.....

Maria Njie, a disabled black woman from The Gambia, has been cleared of “racially aggravated assault” at London's Blackfriars Crown Court. Maria, 50, was accused of telling a senior British police officer to “get your monkeys out of my house” after a dawn drugs bust in Kentish Town, London, in July 2012. She was subsequently arrested and said the ensuing 18-month period of her trial was “hell” as her family had been unfairly targeted....

Women representatives from various political parties have said that women deserve more effective representation in leadership, governance, as well as politics and decision-making process, stressing that it is time for them to occupy key positions.....

(In Tambasansang, the chair of the village support group shows off her grandson, who's been exclusively breastfed. © UNICEF/2013/Gambia/ Isabelle Andrews) Our elderly host leads us through a doorway into a dark, cramped room. Colourful but faded health posters and eye test charts cover the peeling walls. It feels very basic, a long way from any GP's surgery I've ever visited. But as we're about to find out, the quietly-spoken man who works here is a tireless champion for children's health.....

Global politics is in a very calamitous situation which asserts the realists claim of power politics and makes the idealists claim of morality in international politics totally obfuscating. From Africa to America, Europe to Asia far to the Middle East more especially, faultline conflicts continue to undermine the peace and stability of many countries in these regions of the world. Chaos has today become the order of the day with preponderance of war and armed conflict in almost every nook and cranny of the universe...

It is irrefutable that knowledge is the power house for the actualisation of both human and societal development. The University of The Gambia was founded on the core values and principles of knowledge production and dissemination through research and service to society....