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Advancing Tuberculosis Eradication: Researchers at MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM Highlight TB Complications in Children and Adolescents
27 March 2024: Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent globally, surpassing the combined toll of HIV and...
Foreign journalists experience China’s new quality productive forces in...
Foreign journalists attend the launch ceremony of Travelogue of China in Wuxi, East China’s Jiangsu Province on March 21, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Global...
A call to true Islamic teachings: Responding to disinformation...
By Muhammad Mbye
God Almighty is more delighted by his ‘As-hadu’ than your ‘Ash-hadu’. Recently, a video went viral in the media where Sheikh Fakebba...
Senegal’s 2024 earthquake presidential election outcome
By Professor Abdoulaye Saine
The 2024 presidential election outcome in Senegal, similar to The Gambia's 2016 presidential election, is monumental - perhaps of earthquake proportions....
Celebrating the people of Senegal! Only the people can...
By Madi Jobarteh
When men and women without conscience are entrusted with public office, they turn it into a tool for self-aggrandisement. They personalise public...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye: Senegal’s radical leader offers left-wing pan-Africanism....
By Sheriff Bojang Jr
The Africa Report
Senegal’s president-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye ran a radical campaign that inspired the youth and gave hope to anyone who...
The ones who whisper in the shadows’: On FGM
By Amran Gaye
Four decades, give or take: that's how long the women had fought. They were from all walks of life and from all...
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NAM TO SEEK POWER OF ATTORNEY FROM JAMMEH TO SUE GOV’T
By Omar Bah
The National Assembly Member for Foñi Kansala, Almameh Gibba, has said he will write to former president Yahya Jammeh to seek a...
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NAM TO SEEK POWER OF ATTORNEY FROM JAMMEH TO...
By Omar Bah
The National Assembly Member for Foñi Kansala, Almameh Gibba, has said he will write to former president Yahya Jammeh to seek a...
3 NAMs sue Clerk, AG over removal from Ecowas...
By Omar Bah
Fatoumata 'Touma' Njai of Banjul South, Samba Jallow of Niamina East, and Kebba Barrow of Kombo South have filed a lawsuit at...
OIC Gambia finalises logistics; Accommodation reserved for 4,000 delegates...
By Lamin Cham
With a little over a month before The Gambia hosts the 15th summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooporation, the national...
LAWYERS SAY UDP FAILED TO PROVE ITS CASE AGAINST...
The head of civil litigation at the Attorney General’s Chambers has argued that the UDP suit against Ambassadors Fatoumata Jahumpa-Ceesay (FJC) and Sheikh Tijan...
Court orders guarantors of absconded cruise ship crew to...
By Bruce Asemota
Justice Ebrima Jaiteh has ordered 14 guarantors of crew members of a cruise ship who absconded to forfeit bonds of US$50,000 to...
Bantaba
Child mortality
The other day I was listening to the news while driving to my work. There was a report about child mortality in the world,...
OP-ED
A historic moment for The Gambia: Embracing our role...
By Ade Daramy Member, OIC Media sub-committee
As The Gambia stands on the cusp of hosting the 15th Islamic Summit of Rulers and Heads of...
Aicha; Tales from Sweden
Did he do it, or not?
How is it possible for a man to not know if he penetrated a young girl several times? At first he pleaded guilty, and...
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Mental illness = crazy?
Mental illness is considered as taboo to speak about in The Gambia, but we must face the truth. It doesn't disappear just because we...
Aicha; Tales from Sweden
Cancer = death sentence?
In the old days, cancer was equal to a death sentence in my country. There were no known treatments, and no ways to find...
SPORTS
Suso inspires Real to top of the table
Muhammed Suso scored two decisive goals in two consecutive victories of Real de Banjul coming from the bench contributing to the City Boys' extension...
Sports
GNOC SG LAUDS TEAM-GAMBIA AT AFRICAN GAMES
The secretary general of the Gambia National Olympic Committee, Yorro Njie, has expressed deep appreciation of the performance of the Gambian team to the...
Sports
Brikama buzzing with night football
Football has moved even further into the veins of the people of Brikama where night football has been introduced with enthralling response.
The town's football...
Sports
GOLDEN TEAM GAMBIA GETS VIP WELCOME
The Minister of Sports Bakary Badjie led officials to the Banjul airport on Sunday evening to receive the Gambian team from the African Games.More...
Sports
Unique Global FC hires foreign coach
Second division club Unique Global FC has hired a foreign coach, Spaniard Jose Maria Rivadulla Romero. Romero, who will also serve as technical director...
Opinions
A call to true Islamic teachings: Responding to disinformation by Sheikh Fakebba Ceesay directed at Amir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in The Gambia
By Muhammad Mbye
God Almighty is more delighted by his ‘As-hadu’ than your ‘Ash-hadu’. Recently, a video went viral in the media where Sheikh Fakebba...
Essays
The ones who whisper in the shadows’: On FGM
By Amran Gaye
Four decades, give or take: that's how long the women had fought. They were from all walks of life and from all...
Letters
GFA congratulates President-Elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye (Senegal amna ndaam)
Dear Editor,
The Gambia For All party sends warm congratulations to President-Elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye, and the people of the sister republic of Senegal, on...
Opinions
Pastef’s victory in Senegal – a clarion call for...
When Yahya Jammeh and his junta arrested democratic governance in The Gambia on 22 July, 1994, the country's fortunes changed. Predictable and consensual governance,...
Letters
EU’s mass deportations of Gambian immigrants: a violation of...
Dear Editor,
In recent years, the European Union (EU) has intensified its mass deportations of Gambian immigrants residing within its member states, purportedly under the...