16th June 2022. Press Statement Today the 16th day of June 2022 marks International Day of the African Child (DAC). According to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the day is commemorated mainly “to recall the 1976 uprisings in Soweto when high-school students […]
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Gambia Government Reduces Fertilizer Price from D2,500 to D2000
PRESS RELEASE: Dated: 15th June, 2022. Re: The Gambia Government Reduces Fertilizer Price from D2,500 to D2000 Following general anxiety and vexing public outcry over this summer’s published fertilizer price, President Adama Barrow has further subsidized the official price of fertilizer, bringing it down to D2000.00. In fact, no sooner […]
GPF, GIZ embark on community policing in Banjul
The Community Policing Unit of Gambia Police Force (GPF) in collaboration with GIZ, have on 6th June 2022, commenced training for 15 community policing coordinators in the city of Banjul. The coordinators are drawn from police stations in the three local government areas of North, South, and Central Banjul. These […]
Profile: Serign Modou Njie, Gambia’s New Defence Minister
Sering Modou Njie is the Gambia’s new Minister of Defence. He was born on 14th April 1970 in Medina Baye Mass in the North Bank Region. He is happily married and the union is blessed with children. Sering Modou started his academic journey in Medina Sering Mass and proceeded to […]