Tag: Gambia

News, Opinion

Gambia Needs a Professional Foreign Service, Not Politically Appointed Diplomats, Alagi Yoro Jallow writes

The Gambia’s Foreign Service Recruits’ Quality falling: And Whom Are The Gambia Government Sending As Our Country’s Ambassadors and Diplomatic Corps Abroad? Fatoumatta: Take for granted that there is anything imperial leftover from the colonial past in the Gambia. It is the recruitment method and appointment of foreign service officers […]

News, Security

Gambia police arrest 6 murder suspects

Following the armed robbery and subsequent death of a 20-year-old Senegalese national (Amat Touray) along the Palma Rima Beach on the 27/03/2022, rigorous investigation efforts by Kotu Police Station detectives uncovered evidence connecting a gang of six young men from Wellingara and Sinchu Baliya area. This followed an earlier report […]

Opinion, Politics

President Barrow Assembled Most Male-Dominated Government In Decades

Fatoumatta: President Adama Barrow’s new Cabinet Ministers appointments have shaped up to have a smaller percentage of women Cabinet Ministers representation in this administration compared to his first Cabinet in first Ministerial appointments in the last administration, which is sharply contrasting with that of his predecessor’s Cabinet Ministers appointments for […]

News

NCAC, UNESCO Observe African World Heritage Day

The National Center for Arts and Culture (NCAC) and The Gambia National Commission for UNESCO on the 5th May 2022 celebrated the African World Heritage Day as proclaimed by the 38th session of the General conference of UNESCO in November 2015. The celebration that was held at the NCAC conference […]