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11 injured in Senegal airport incident

Reports monitored on Seneweb indicate that eleven people were injured on Thursday, four of them seriously, when a Boeing overshot the runway during take-off, an incident that led to the closure of Diass Blaise Diagne International Airport. According to Seneweb, the B737/300 aircraft, chartered from a private airline, Transair, on […]

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GCAA speaks on the death of British lady at the Airport

The Management of the Gambia Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has issued a press statement on the death of a British lady (a checked-in passenger) at Banjul International Airport on Sunday, 15th October 2023. “The unfortunate event happened around 19. 35pm in the evening of Sunday 15th October 2023, while the […]

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Nigerian man wanted by the FBI arrested at Dakar airport

Senegal’s leading online medium Seneweb has reported that a  Nigerian man named Tope Gbenga Opaogun was arrested at the Blaise Diagne International Airport in Diass. According to Seneweb, the suspect, who is wanted by the FBI was coming from Lomé, the capital of Togo, in the company of his family. […]