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The government of the United Kingdom has tripled the number of Chevening Scholarships which are available to people from 144 countries and territories to study in Britain for a year...

Following the outstanding success of its first 18 months of operations, Gambia Bird Airlines has announced services to three new destinations in West Africa. The new services would operate from Gambia Bird's home base of Banjul to Bissau, Lagos and Dakar as well as Douala in Cameroon....

Club sources at HJK Helsinki have stated that Gambia's target Macoumba Kanji is currently on trials there, and had a big role as they play Hammarby IF during their preseason camp in Sweden. Kanji is said to be now training with the first team, impressing everyone. ..

In the early 1960s, a very important event took place in The Gambia. Granted, it was considered by many to be insignificant. A missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, Hafiz Gibreel Sa'eed visited the country to follow up on literature that had filtered through the country by chance, or by the special design of the Almighty Allah....

Ms Aisha Keita, a young women's rights activist has expressed her resolve to engage neglectful young fathers to live up to their responsibilities...

The organisers of the Great Senegambia Symposium, initially scheduled for the end of this month have announced that the death of one of their key speakers Dr Saja Taal, senior political science lecturer at The University of The Gambia, has warranted a postponement of the event...

The contention around The Gambia's withdrawal from the British Commonwealth has refused to go away five months on, as the APRC dominated National Assembly voted in defence of the pull-out. ..

The former director-general of the National Intelligence Agency, Numo Kujabi, has died and his remains interred yesterday. Kujabi, who was police commissioner for criminal intelligence and Interpol, was believed to be in his mid-forties....

Lawyer Lamin Mboge, barrister for the former secretary general and head of civil service, Njogu Bah, has described the trial of his client as 'trial by suffering' as he continued his cross-examination of the state witness, Lamin Ceesay yesterday before Principal Magistrate Hilary Abeke of Banjul...

The trial of the former attorney general and minister of justice, Lamin Jobarteh, could not proceed yesterday at the Banjul High Court before Justice Mikailu Abdullah due to the sudden demise of the state witness who supposed to testify yesterday, the director of public prosecution told the court...

The Gambia's health minister Omar Sey yesterday announced that his government would next week launch a campaign that seeks to sanitise the traditional herbal medicine environment...

The Vice President, Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy, has lauded the initiative and creation of the Senegalese-Gambian Association for Integration and Socio-Economic Development (SGAISD), a bilateral organization with chapters in both Gambia and Senegal, aimed at complementing government's efforts in cementing historic ties that existed between the peoples of the Gambia and Senegal....