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Barrow Says He Is A Mandinka

By Omar Bah President Adama Barrow has strongly dismissed claims that he was playing tribal politics by accepting to meet an exclusively Fula Association. Addressing the...

Gambia to appear before UN rights watchdog

The Gambia is scheduled to appear before a United Nations human rights watchdog in Geneva today, a press release from the Justice Ministry stated. The...

TRRC to start sessions on witch-hunt

Press release The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission is currently wrapping up its ninth session which focussed on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and gearing up...

Lawyers demand NIA case to stop until appeals are heard

By Mafugi Ceesay Justice Kumba Sillah-Camara of the Banjul High Court is set to deliver a ruling on the prosecution's application for the stay of...

Yankuba’s lawyer wants Baba Galleh arrested

By Bruce Asemota Lawyer Abdoulie Sissoho, the legal counsel for the embattled former Junta member, Yankuba Touray yesterday applied for the High Court to issue...

Beakanyang conlcudes peace conference in Wuli

As part of its efforts to promote peace and social cohesion in the Upper River Region, Beakanyang on Saturday convened the first ever Wuli...

Closure of school concerns lawmakers

By Omar Bah National Assembly Committee on education, training and ICT has raised concerns over the continuous closure of Old Yundum Upper and Lower Basic...

NACCUG gives loans to 13 entrepreneurs

By Maimuna Sey-Jawo The National Association of Cooperative Credit Unions of the Gambia (NACCUG), in collaboration with Savings Bank Foundation for International Cooperation (SBFICs) last...

749 tourists arrive

By Amadou Jadama Officials of the Gambia Tourism Board last week received the first batch of tourists who landed at the Yundum International airport. Their arrival...

CRC on track to deliver a draft constitution

Press Release The Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) Sunday announced that it is on track to deliver a draft Constitution. “Consistent with its terms of reference,...

YEP, others launch 2nd edition of GGM

By Olimatou Coker Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) together with Association of Small Scale Enterprises in Responsible Tourism (ASSERT) over the weekend launched the second edition...

BAKAU DEMAND COMPENSATION FOR GRABBED LAND

Elders of Bakau yesterday walked into the offices of The Standard, visibly upset with what they described as “unfair treatment” of the people of...

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ST’s newest ‘Baba la Letaroo’ breaks the internet

Oh My God! Newer imagined that a song can be so relatable to different people, different genders and different walks of life…but yes it...

‘Barrow Is Killing GDC In NBR’

By Omar Bah Former Jokadou chairman of the Gambia Democratic Congress, who recently resigned to join President Adama Barrow, has claimed that his former party...

GDC NAM asks AG to stop BYM political activities

By Omar Bah The GDC National Assembly Member for Niamina East has asked the Attorney General to stop the Barrow Youth Movement from promoting President...

Witness says witch-hunters made him carry human skull

By Mafugi Ceesay Ali Marr, a survivor of Yahya Jammeh's witch hunting exercise in 2009, yesterday told the TRRC that he was handed a human...

Canada, Netherlands join Gambia’s fight for Rohingyas

Press release On November 11th 2019, The Gambia filed a lawsuit at The Hague demanding accountability on the systematic violations of the rights of minority...