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Following a gunfight lasting about half-an-hour, Libyan police arrested four men suspected of having killed Gambian migrant Alfusainey Sinera on Friday, March 7...

Ousman Gibba has been appointed as new deputy Inspector General of Police while Edward Sambou made a comeback as Commissioner of Finance....

(APRC National mobiliser ) Yankuba Colley is the mayor of the populous Kanifing municipality as well as the national mobiliser of the ruling APRC. In this maiden re-launched edition of Bantaba, Sainey Darboe asked him about the postponed APRC national congress, his unquestioning loyalty and matters relating to his party....

Ebrima Jawara, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture has said that the government of The Gambia under leadership of President Yahya Jammeh values and encourages a free and independent media. “That's why the Jammeh administration has been consistently engaged in constructive media development in The Gambia.” ...

The National Reconciliation Party led by Hamat Bah applied to the Inspector General of Police for the use of public address system “for the purpose of political visits, rallies and meetings in the Upper River Division”...

The secretary general of the Angolan Foreign Ministry, and the secretary general of the Africa Commission on Human and People's Rights, have signed an agreement that will effectively move the 55th Ordinary Session of the continental human rights commission from Banjul to Angola...

Members of the Network of Agricultural Communicators (NAC) Gambia and their Danish counterparts have joined the bandwagon in the fight against food insecurity and poverty in The Gambia through awareness creation and advocacy...

Beatrice Prom, corporate services manager of the Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has said that trade fairs are not just about sales but lasting contacts that can serve businesses for life time. Speaking to journalists at a press conference yesterday evening at the trade fair venue, Independence Stadium, Ms Prom said the fundamental essence of any fair is, among other things, for businesses to network, sell their products and services even beyond the trade fair....

The Gambia government is yet to ratify the Ecowas Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons and their Ammunitions and related matters despite the fact that it has signed it almost eight years ago....

Alfusainey Sinara, a Gambian migrant from Basse, Upper River Region, was murdered by armed robbers when they attacked their residential neighbourhood this Saturday in Libya....

Following months of consultations and meetings with government, diplomatic officials and academics in Banjul and Dakar, members of the Senegalese-Gambian Association for Integration and Socio Economic Development, SGAISD have announced that the ground is set for the first ever 'Great Senegambia Symposium and Conference' next month....

Regional, local and international participants at the ongoing GCCI Trade Fair 2014 have decried among other things, the level of sales as low. Officially opened by the Vice President and Minister of Women Affairs, Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy, the fair aimed among others to provide a platform for joint-ventures, develop links between Gambian and international businesses, and promote the development of the micro, small and medium enterprises...