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Earning a decent living is an aspiration that is nurtured by every sane human being without exception. Without a decent source of livelihood, the person becomes nothing more than a liability to the society and the nation, thus giving rise to discrimination which leads the affected person to lose self-respect...

Abusive Development But what about the phenomenon I describe as abusive development?

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The Catholic Education Secretariat Co-operative Credit Union (CESCCU) last week held its 12th annual general meeting, AGM, at St Peter's Primary School in Lamin...

State House imam, Alhaji Abdoulie Fatty's disputation of the practice of female genital mutilation in The Gambia holds no water in the eyes of a former circumciser and public health nurse who spoke to The Standard...

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In January 2013, France sent a few thousand troops to Mali in a bid to combat rebel fighters who had seized control of the north of the country and were threatening to advance on the capital. The intervention shed light on some of France's historical relationships with its former colonies. But what do the country's historic ties with Africa say about its recent political moves? Dr Lansine Kaba is a distinguished scholar, writer and professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. He is the recipient of the distinguished Melville J Herskovits Prize for best work in English in African Studies. Al Jazeera's Heather Roy spoke to this leading historian on Africa about the France-Africa connection and what role, if any, this relationship plays today....

In this edition of Bantaba, editor Sainey Darboe talks to the world-renowned Islamic scholar, preacher and founder of Islamic Online University Dr Bilal Philips about terrorism, education as well as his conversion from Christianity to Communism and then Islam...

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All praise be to Allah. All praise be to Allah Who is glorified in His Loftiness, and Unified and Unique in His Lordship. For Him is Everlasting Eternity. And for Him alone is Honour. There is no god but Allah, everlasting and Ever-Existing. Glorified and Holy is He. The praise on Him cannot be counted, and there is no escape from Him except to Him, and there is no hoping for good except from Him. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil of ourselves and the evil of our bad deeds.

Francis Csedrik, who is 8 and lives in Washington, DC, remembers a lot of events from when he was 4 or just a bit younger. There was the time he fell "headfirst on a marble floor" and got a concussion, the day someone stole the family car ("my dad had to chase it down the block"), or the morning he found a black bat (the furry kind) in the house.

The director of export at Gambia Investment and Export Promotion Agency(GIEPA),Mariama Fatajo has declared that her organisation is intensifying efforts to increase capacities for processing and storage of fish and other resources for export to stimulate economic development.