Since the outbreak of Covid-19 global pandemic – and its emergence in The Gambia - media houses and reporters have been working under extremely difficult and dangerous circumstances to save lives by keeping the people informed and educated of the pandemic and ultimately holding the government to account.
As frontliners, reporters have been reporting from treatment centres, the airport and land borders and other many potential hotspots without adequate protective equipment and disinfectants.
The Union is proud of these enormous sacrifices and calls on the public and the government to support journalists whose work is crucial to stopping the spread and saving lives.
We equally call on media houses and journalists to utilise the media advisory prepared by the GPU, which provides key guidance on safety of journalists during the pandemic.
The minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure, Ebrahim Sillah, in an interview with West Coast Radio on Tuesday said, any public official who is found to be involved in human trafficking will face the full force of the law.
The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Mambury Njie, on Saturday addressed a graduation ceremony at the West Africa Insurance Institute.
President Adama Barrow has requested from ECOWAS the extension of the mandate of ECOMIG in The Gambia as he addressed the 57th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government in Niamey on Monday.
President Adama Barrow has instructed security chiefs in a recent briefing to form a task force and intensify the investigations on Banta Keita, the alleged owner of the 7 January drug seizure of 2.9 tonnes of cocaine.
