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 […]
Ahmadiyya Emir writes to President Barrow, accuses Imam Fatty & Sheikh Chebbo Cham of trying to create violence against the Ahmadiyya Jamaat members, other Muslim sects, other faiths & Gov’t
The Emir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in The Gambia Baba F. Trawally has written a letter, dated 9th June 2022, to the President HE Adama Barrow, informing him and his government about some concerns raised against some Wahabi/Salafi scholars and Imams in the Gambia, notably Imam Abdoulie Fatty and […]
