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Three old Chester school friends, who now live thousands of miles from each other, have reunited to improve the lives of women in The Gambia. Carol Cunningham, Ingrid Strawson and Fiona Hirsig, all former pupils at The Queen's School, have been working for the Gambia Women's Initiative (GWI), a project founded by Carol to help women living in rural Gambia.....

The World Bank has approved to give The Gambia government an International Development Assistance grant amounting to US$11.9 million to support the country's new education project, a news release from the Bank's Banjul Office revealed. The Results for Education Achievement and Development (READ) project is a joint partnership with the World Bank and the government whose contribution to the project amounts to US$16 million over four years....

Mr Yusupha Bojang, the national coordinator for the Network of Community Radio Stations in The Gambia has urged for the improvement in the current status of community radio stations in the country.....

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

The University of The Gambia Friday graduated 3,866 students in various disciplines in a ceremony held at July 22nd Square in Banjul, attended by President Jammeh, First Lady Zineb Jammeh, Secretary General and Head of Civil Service Momodou Sabally and other local and foreign dignitaries.....

Justice Edrissa Fafa M'bai of Banjul High Court has freed two officials of Zygot Oil Company, a private local firm engaged in processing groundnut oil and cake after a no-case submission was made by the defence counsel upon the closure of the prosecution’s case....

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...

(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...