BANJUL, 30 April 2021: The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, has held audience with the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Ambassador Ma Jianchun, in his office in Banjul.
Former acting attorney general and solicitor general under Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC), Amie Bensouda, vehemently denied aiding and abetting the military junta, saying she takes no responsibility for the decrees used during the transition government nor does she take responsibility for the actions of the military.
Principal Magistrate S.K. Jobarteh of the Banjul Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 21 April 2021 delivered judgment in a case involving Alhagie Dawda Joof and the Inspector General of Police (IGP).
The United Democratic Party (UDP) has on Thursday, 29th April withdrew their appeal against the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Sheriffo Sonko, Councillor Bilal Faal and Councillor Momodou Bojang.
Mama Fatima Singhateh, the last serving attorney general and minister for Justice under former President Yahya Jammeh, yesterday testified before the TRRC, denying there was no judicial interference on her watch.
An ongoing conference of ECOWAS Ministers of Agriculture and technocrats, backed by the West African Monetary Union, international financial institutions, UN bodies, international NGOs, private sector and civil society is seeking ways to ensure that a physical stockpile of 40, 000 metric tonnes of food reserve is established for member states of the sub region.
Since the inception of the coronavirus pandemic, Gambian women, particularly fish vendors within Latrikunda Sabiji market who wake up every morning to Tanji Fish Landing Site, (a coastal town) in the West Coast Region (WRC) are grappling with less income.
Tourism in The Gambia has and it is still providing women with economic opportunities.
However, women who are working in the tourism industry are finding it difficult to recover from ripple effects of the pandemic.
Haddy Bayo, a resident of Kanifing Estate, yesterday told the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Faal that she fears that her son, Omar Cham, may kill her. She testified that on Sunday the 25th day of April, 2021, she was in her room sleeping, and all of a sudden, her cousin’s sister, Fatoumata Jobarteh, knocked on her door around 4 a.m.
The secretary general and leader of the People Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), Hon. Halifa Sallah, has revealed that the debt burden of this country is 77.4 billion dalasis.
Several women gardeners within the West Coast Region (WCR) have said the coronavirus pandemic has severely affected their financial gains since the disease reached the Gambia in 2020.
Since the country recorded its first coronavirus case in The Gambia on 17th March 2020, there's been public concern about reports of increased Gender Based Violence (GBV) cases in the country.
The women gardeners of Jiboroh village in the Kombo East District of the West Coast Region (WCR) have abandoned their five hectares garden since 2015 due to lack of proper fence to prevent animals from intruding the agricultural site.
Amie Ndungo Drammeh Bensouda, former lead counsel of the concluded Janneh Commission yesterday, before the TRRC, admitted assisting the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) in drafting the decrees that the commission believes Jammeh used to entrench himself in power for 22 years, saying she has no regrets.
