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Sep 14, 2026
Sep 14, 2026
Sep 11, 2026
Sep 11, 2026
A teacher at St. John’s School for the Deaf, Binta Nyagado, has embarked on a personal campaign to contribute to the fight against anxiety, depression and other emotional challenges affecting young people and families in The Gambia.
Sep 11, 2026 • Ali Jaw
The Sare Chikam Youth Association (SCYA) has held the fourth edition of its Annual Students’ Support Programme, providing school materials and recognition to outstanding students in an effort to promote education and ease the financial burden on parents.
Sep 11, 2026
The National Council for Civic Education (NCCE) has intensified its grassroots civic and voter sensitisation campaign across the Lower River Region (LRR), North Bank Region (NBR) and West Coast Region (WCR), as The Gambia prepares for the 5 December 2026 Presidential Election.
Sep 10, 2026 • Ismaila Sonko
Key stakeholders have converged in Brikama to assess the implementation of ChildFund-The Gambia’s Gifts-in-Kind (GIK) Programme, with a focus on addressing emerging challenges, sharing lessons learned and strengthening coordination for improved programme delivery.
Sep 10, 2026 • Adama Jallow
Kanifing General Hospital (KGH) has received a significant donation of assorted surgical items from the British charity “Let’s Give Too”, in a move expected to strengthen the hospital’s capacity to provide quality healthcare services to patients.
Sep 10, 2026 • Momodou Jawo
The Federation of Labour Unions of The Gambia (FLUG) has commenced a four-day capacity-building training programme aimed at strengthening trade union leadership and equipping workers’ representatives with the skills needed to effectively defend workers’ rights and respond to emerging challenges in the world of work.
Sep 10, 2026 • Isatou Ceesay Bah
About 25 media managers and editors are undergoing a two-day intensive training on the roles and responsibilities of key governance institutions in The Gambia.
Sep 9, 2026 • Adama Jallow
Soninke communities in The Gambia and around the world will September 25, 2026, observe the 3rd International Soninke Language Day, following UNESCO’s proclamation of the date in October 2023. This year’s theme is:‘From Oral to Written: Making Soninke a Language of Production, Learning, and Creation in the 21st Century’.
Sep 9, 2026
The UNICEF office in Banjul on Monday, September 7, 2026, began a four-day technical mission with stakeholders to strengthen Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools (WinS), and Menstrual Health and Hygiene in The Gambia.
Sep 9, 2026 • Adama Jallow
As The Gambia prepares for the 2026 Presidential Election, Caritas Gambia has intensified peacebuilding efforts focused on community mediation, conflict prevention, and social cohesion.
Sep 8, 2026 • Sally Fatty
The National Disaster Management Agency, NDMA, on Saturday, September 5, 2026, led a large-scale simulation exercise along the Latrikunda German-Kotu Stream to test institutional readiness for disaster response.
Sep 8, 2026 • Adama Jallow
CUBE The Gambia and the Kanifing Municipal Library jointly hosted the IGNITE Summer STEAM Camp 2026, a free three-week programme providing young people aged 11 to 18 with practical learning opportunities across science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM), alongside digital skills, environmental education, leadership and civic engagement.
Sep 8, 2026
The Female Lawyers Association–Gambia (FLAG), in partnership with UNICEF, has called on editors and senior newsroom personnel to strengthen accurate, ethical and survivor‑centred reporting of sexual and gender‑based violence (SGBV), particularly in coverage of the ongoing female genital mutilation (FGM) case before the Supreme Court.
Sep 7, 2026 • Isatou Ceesay Bah
The Insurance Association of The Gambia (GIA) has launched a stakeholder workshop at WAII in Kololi to close the country’s insurance knowledge gap, with participants stressing that the message is urgent.
Sep 7, 2026 • Rohey Samba
Press release The Gambia Immigration Department (GID), through its Border Patrol Unit (BPU) stationed at the Migration Management Unit (MMU) in Tanji, with support from its Spanish partners, conducted an operation that resulted in the interception of seventy-six (76) suspected would-be migrants.
Sep 7, 2026
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), Major General Ousman Gomez, has pledged to deploy military personnel to the newly established Sare Teneng Military Post in the Upper River Region (URR).
Sep 4, 2026 • Adama Jallow
Gambians remain steadfast in their rejection of autocracy and commitment to democracy, but unresolved constitutional reforms and pending legal changes cast a long shadow over the December 2026 presidential election, according to findings by the National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) International Pre‑Election Assessment Mission.
Sep 4, 2026 • Landing Ceesay
His Excellency Zhao Shangsen, Deputy Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Banjul, has emphasised that President Xi Jinping’s four Global Governance Initiatives provide complementary pathways to stability and certainty in an era of overlapping crises.
Sep 4, 2026 • Adama Jallow
