The Ministry of Health has said that the security taskforce and the Red Cross Burial Team are grappling with community resistance to hand over corpses that contracted coronavirus for safe and dignified burials.
The covid-19 pandemic continues its surge in the Gambia as the Health Ministry recorded four new deaths on Sunday, bringing the total number of covid-19 related deaths to 23, with a crude case fatality ratio of 1.9%
A group of civil society organisations and frontline workers has asked President Adama Barrow to address Gambians on the state of the nation within 72 hours amid covid-19 crisis that has gripped the nation.
Health Minister Ahmadou Lamin Samateh and Vice President Dr. Isatou Toray have both tested negative for covid-19.
The Gambia has recorded 3 new deaths due to covid-19 with 155 new positive cases registered, making it the highest reported cases in a single day so far.
The National Association of Gambia Nurses and Midwives (NAGaNM) has called for the immediate stop to discrimination against nurses in carrying their duties in the fight against covid-19.
A night security guard posted at Africell’s Bakau Branch has been found dead on Saturday while on duty.
The Gambia Bankers Association has announced that banks across the country will cease operating on Saturdays until the end of curfew and state of public emergency.
The community of Jambanjelly over the weekend engaged in a community service commonly known as ‘tesito’. The self-help project was temporarily designed to avoid the recurrence of last month's flood due to a heavy downpour.
The U.S. government is attempting to seize the Montgomery County estate of Yahya Jammeh, the exiled former president of The Gambia who has been accused of murders, rapes, tortures and the theft of more than $300 million in public funds during his 22-year regime.
Following the declaration of a new state of public emergency and introduction of curfew by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of The Gambia, effective 6th August 2020 throughout The Gambia for a period of 21 days, The Gambia Police Force has launched an operation dubbed Save our Souls (SoS), a dispatch from the Office of The Inspector General of Police states.
The United Democratic Party (UDP) has sent condolences to the families of the venerable Sheik Al Islam, EL-Hajj Ibrahim Niass over the demise of Chiekh Ahmed Tidiane Niass.
About 40 people are feared dead after a migrant vessel sank off the coast of Mauritania, the UN said Thursday, in a fresh tragedy along the Atlantic migration route to Europe.
Latrikunda Sabiji, 5th August, 2020: With the increase in the number of people contracting coronavirus in The Gambia, The Gambia Association of Local Government Authorities [GALGA] is calling on the Government of The Gambia and all the eight Local Councils to be more focused on the welfare of their people to contain local transmissions.
Three residents of Bwiam village have denied committing the murder of Baba Sanyang, a 21-year-old boy.
The government of The Gambia has imposed curfew amid rising cases of covid-19 in the country, Ebrima Sankareh, the government spokesperson told GRTS yesterday.
A prominent Gambian business tycoon, George S. Madi, the chairman and managing director of S Madi, passed away on Tuesday 4 August 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon, The Point has learned. He was 77.
