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We live in a world that is concerned with everything except the most important of matters, the indispensable concept of meaning. Life is a movement between meaning and purpose, so without the consideration of the meaning that underline the foundations of a life gifted unto the human being by the divine, he becomes nothing more than a cattle traversing this earth with no purpose....

About a year ago, in the land of the great Nelson Mandela I met a number of young Africans, all of whom are the continent's biggest and brightest young entrepreneurs. It was at the continent's edition of the World Economic Forum and the Global Shapers meeting....

Dear editor,

Efficient transport service is indispensible to the economic development of any nation. People commute or go about their daily businesses through various transportation means. One such is road. In Gambia, like almost everywhere in the world, the roads are the dominant mode of transportation...

People both young and old have different capacities to resist pain and difficulties. People, young and old, now and in the past, have made exemplary records of bravery and resistance to pain and difficulties in the struggle against oppression...

Dear editor,

The movement had a physically stainless, perfectly laid out and well-written newsletter called the Balangba. The typesetting and printing of the Balangba newsletter was probably done in Sweden or another place outside The Gambia, because I doubt there was at the time the quality off-set printing press here. ..

Every nation owes its continuity and progress to its young people who are the future leaders, hence the need for the creation of a conducive and safe environment for our children to grow up in. However, despite this glaring fact, children remain the most vulnerable amongst the human family which leaves them in greater need of protection. So the protection and promotion of the rights of the child, becomes binding and obligatory upon the state, as well as individual citizens.

Female circumcision and female genital mutilation has been one of the topical issues in The Gambia in the past several weeks with The Standard editor Sainey Darboe stirring the hornet's nest in his interviews with the unapologetic pro-female circumcision Muslim cleric, Alhaji Abdoulie Fatty, the imam of State House Mosque, Banjul. Sanna Camara sampled some public opinion:...

Dear editor,

Like Amadou Bojang of Tallinding, the author of the letter to the editor entitled; “In Praise of Jainaba Bah” published in your March 24 issue, I also grabbed my copy of The Standard every morning to “seek the beautifully written series, 'Breaking the omerta: one woman's recount of her Moja-G activism' by Jainaba Bah. Like Amadou Bojang, at the end of each piece of the serialised articles, I was left with greater hunger for more....

The hardest-hit areas of the genocide The killings took place in all inhabited or uninhabited places, places of worship, and in relaxation places such as restaurants and bars. The figures in the report cited above show that more massacres took place in the hills than in other areas, and also in certain regions inhabited by a large number of Tutsi...