News about The Gambia
The Gambia - Page 2
Football : Gambian Scorpions beat Liberia’s Lone Star in CAN/WC qualifiers
The Gambia national team, the Scorpions, on Saturday thrashed Liberia's Lone Star 3-0 and bundled them out of the 2010 CAN/World Cup qualifiers. The...
Football : Lone Star denied use of national stadium facilities in the Gambia ahead of WC qualifiers
The Liberia national team, the Lone Star, arrived in Banjul on Thursday for its penultimate round African Cup of Nations/ World Cup qualifying match...
Gambia: Islamic scholar says men with four wives must be stoned to death
A Gambian Islamic scholar and former president of the Gambia Supreme Islamic Council, Alhaji Ahmed Cherno Banding Drammeh, has argued that Muslim men who...
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
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
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 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
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...
Spain deports 49 illegal immigrants from The Gambia
About 49 Gambians, who entered Spain illegally, have bee n deported, immigration sources said Monday. Chief Superintendent Olimatou Jammeh-Sonko, Gambia's Immigration department spokesperson, confirmed...
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
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...
The Gambia: Two high court judges get the boot
The Gambian State Department of Justice has sacked two high court judges, judicial sources confirmed Monday. According to the sources, Justices Haddy Roche and...
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...
Two suspected human traffickers denied bail and compared to murderers in The Gambia
Two suspected human traffickers in the Gambia have been denied bail for the second time by the Kanifing magistrate's court, citing the law which...
Gambian soldiers depart for war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur
Gambian soldiers numbering 196 Tuesday departed for war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, to embark on joint UN/AU peace-keeping mission, government mouth-piece, Daily Observer disclosed....
Editor-in-chief of pro-gov’t daily sacked and detained in the Gambia
A Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of Gambia's pro-government Daily Observer newspaper, Mr. Dida Halake, has been sacked by the paper's Board of Directors. Following...
President-friendly Editor arrested in the Gambia
Mr. Deda Halake, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of Gambia's pro-government newspaper, Daily Observer, has been arrested and is being detained at the Kotu police...
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...
Algerian team arrives in Gambia
The Algerian national football team arrived in Gambia Thursday to take on the national team of the Gambia, the Scorpions, in the World Cup...
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
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
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,...
Country prepares to celebrate dictator’s birthday
Supporters of Gambia's ruling party, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), are preparing a big party to celebrate President Yahya Jammeh's 43rd...
Police arrest ex radio and television broadcaster in The Gambia
The Gambia Police Force (GPF) on Monday arrested and detained former Gambia Radio and Television Services (GRTS) broadcaster Malick Jones, the Banjul-based Independent Daily,...
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...
Vice president: Murder of Hydara still being investigated
Gambia's Vice President Aja Isatou Saidy on Wednesday as sured the Gambia Press Union that investigations into the murder of Deyda Hydara , a...
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...
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...
The Gambia : Charged US based journalist’s file found
The Banjul Magistrate's has found the case file of journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh, who is being tried for sedition, reliable sources said on Monday....
The Gambia promotes 556 police officers
About 556 officers of the Gambian police have been promoted to various ranks by the Police High command here, according to Inspector Saluymann Secka,...