Since elected into office as the first female Mayor of the country’s capital city, Banjul City Council (BCC), Rohey Malick Lowe continues to gain more international recognition. She was last year named the African Mayor of the Month (April 2021) by the United Cities of Local Government (UCLG). She was last year also appointed Vice Chair of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM).
Reacting to Mayoress Lowe’s election as president of RAFELA Africa, the leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), Ousainou Darbo writes on the UDP Executive Group congratulating her: “Congratulations Burr Banjul for your election as President of Refela. Every Gambian is proud of you. You have repainted The Gambia on the global political map on a positive pedestal. Papa is proud of you. Continue to live with God’s blessings.”
President Alassane Ouattara on Friday received Dr. Momadou Tangara, Gambia’s Foreign Affairs minister who delivered to the Ivorian leader a special message from President Adama Barrow.
SalieuTaal, the president of The Gambia Bar Association and a private law practitioner, yesterday meticulously testified before the TRRC how former President Yahya Jammeh used the justice sector to violate the rights of Gambians and to entrench himself into power.
In continuance of his development projects for The Gambian people, His Excellency President Barrow on Thursday 8th June 2023 departed Banjul for his native Mankamang Kunda in the Upper River Region (URR).
The Gambia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (GiEPA) yesterday held a day-long investment incentives stakeholder engagement awareness forum to consider the challenges faced and the way forward by private sector players in helping the country’s economy and consider recommendations for government action.
