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Gambia government bids Iran goodbye

Gambia government bids Iran goodbye

The Gambia and the Islamic Republic of Iran have broken diplomatic ties following reports that Iran was involved in an illegal arms shipment to...
Gambia: President accused of locking up rivals

Gambia: President accused of locking up rivals

Former heads of the navy and army have been charged with plotting to overthrow Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, but the president has been accused...
Drug cartels losing ground in African drug war?

Drug cartels losing ground in African drug war?

Security authorities in The Gambia have seized about $1bn worth of cocaine on transit from South America to Europe. The authorities also seized large...
Gambia: President’s death threats spark protests around Africa

Gambia: President’s death threats spark protests around Africa

Human Rights groups in Africa are demanding that the African Union human rights commission Headquarters be removed from Gambia following a fierce threat made...
Lessons on Malaria control from The Gambia

Lessons on Malaria control from The Gambia

When it comes to fighting malaria, Gambia is leading the way. Engaged in a relentless battle against this disease since the beginning of this...
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President Jammeh distributes free sheep !

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh Monday distributed rams to needy Muslims across the country as part of Edi-el-adha, locally known as Tobaski. Distributing the rams, Jammeh...
Rule of terror: Gambian gov’t killing and torturing citizens

Rule of terror: Gambian gov’t killing and torturing citizens

A global rights body, Amnesty International (AI), has launched a report titled "fear rules in Gambia", and urged African leaders to quickly "address the...
New Zealander arrested for pornography now charged with paedophilia

New Zealander arrested for pornography now charged with paedophilia

Police from The Gambia have charged a New Zealander with defiling a 16-year-old girl in the West African country, after initial accusations of pornography. Police...
Porn charges leveled at New Zealander and host for luring Gambian girls

Porn charges leveled at New Zealander and host for luring Gambian girls

Anthony Michael Duson, a New Zealander, was arrested with his Gambian host Mustpha Drammeh, by the Gambia Police for establishing a company dealing with...
International investigations into massacre of Ghanaians in The Gambia lauded

International investigations into massacre of Ghanaians in The Gambia lauded

A human rights group on Friday lauded the establishment of a joint United Nations-Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) team to investigate the...
Gambian President ‘cures’ HIV/AIDS patients

Gambian President ‘cures’ HIV/AIDS patients

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has discharged 23 HIV/AIDS patients who had undergone treatment from him in his native village of ‘Kanilai’, situated some 120km...
Positive results announced in favour of President’s fertility treatments

Positive results announced in favour of President’s fertility treatments

Gambia’s Health and Medical Services Director, Dr. Tamsir Mbowe, has said that President Yahya Jammeh’s infertility treatment programme was working and 96 patients have...
US-based Gambian opposition condemns coup celebration

US-based Gambian opposition condemns coup celebration

The New York-based chapter of Gambia's main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) on Wednesday condemned the celebration of the 14th anniversary of the 1994...
14 years of President Jammeh in Gambia

14 years of President Jammeh in Gambia

Supporters of Gambia's ruling party, Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), are busy preparing to celebrate the 14th anniversary of President Yahya Jammeh's...
Rule of terror as the Gambia holds journalist for more than 730 days

Rule of terror as the Gambia holds journalist for more than 730 days

A sub-regional media freedom watchdog, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Monday decried "the continued detention of Gambian journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh", saying he...
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Gambia 1, Algeria 0 in World cup/CAN 2010 qualifier

Gambian National soccer team, the Scorpions, stung their Algerian counterpart 1-0 in their group World Cup/African Nations cup qualifying match here Saturday. Gambia's winner was...
Two Spanish caught in the Gambia after President called for the death of Homosexuals

Two Spanish caught in the Gambia after President called for the death of Homosexuals

Two Spanish nationals, Pere Joan, 56 and Juan Monpserrat rusa, 54 years, alleged to be homosexuals were arrested over the weekend and currently detained...
President Jammeh says Africans must drop inferiority complex

President Jammeh says Africans must drop inferiority complex

Gambia President Yahya Jammeh has urged Africans to have faith in themselves and drop their “inferiority complex” resulting from “colonialism and slavery”, according national...
French manager gets the boot from The Gambia for abuse

French manager gets the boot from The Gambia for abuse

Gambia’s five-star Atlantic Hotel General Manager has been deported to his native country, France, by the Gambia Immigrant Department, sources confirmed. According to the sources,...
President plans to kill off every single homosexual

President plans to kill off every single homosexual

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says he will “cut off the head” of any homosexual caught in his country. Addressing supporters at the end of his...
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Gambian nationals mandated to arrest at the country’s airport

Under Gambia's new civil aviation law, civilians are mandated to arrest persons who commit offences or crimes at the Banjul International Airport. According to the...
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The Gambia : Foreign jobs bill reviewed

The Gambian National Assembly on Monday passed a bill restricting the categories and number of non-citizens who can be employed by private firms operating...
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Debt relief for The Gambia

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) on Wednesday in Tunis approved debt relief of US $ 22.77 million in nominal...
The Gambia: Online blocks amid violent threats

The Gambia: Online blocks amid violent threats

Since the beginning of March 2008, Gambians have been unable to access the "Freedom Newspaper", an online Gambian newspaper based in the United States of America,...
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Rights group demands justice for 44 persons murdered in Gambia

Scores of human rights activists and families of some 44 Ghanaians and other nationals allegedly killed in the Gambia in July 2005 while trying...
Single currency for west africa to begin

Single currency for west africa to begin

The common currency for five West African states, the ECO, whose launch has been postponed twice already, will become legal tender at the end...
CAF Matches: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Benin…

CAF Matches: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Benin…

Results and brief commentaries of matches between: Ashantigold and Sahel, Africa Sport and Tonnerre, Entente Sportive and Port Authority as well as announced match between...
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Gambia deports 64 street children to Senegal

The Gambian Immigration Department has deported 64 street children, locally known as "almudus", who were rounded up in Banjul and Serrekunda and identified as...
Gambian President attracts 1600 infertile women

Gambian President attracts 1600 infertile women

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has resumed his infertility treatment using traditional medicine. The president's call saw 1,600 women looking for babies lining up as...
Economic stagnation wreaks havoc in Gambia, says opposition leader

Economic stagnation wreaks havoc in Gambia, says opposition leader

The leader of Gambia's main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP), Ousainou Darboe, on Thursday launched scathing attack on the ruling government's economic policies, saying...