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THE MADIANA COMMUNITY GARDEN P...
THE MADIANA COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT
Madiana community garden was established in 2012 by Lizet and Hans, two Dutch nationals who also supply the seeds every year, through a Gambian...
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Rotavirus Is The Leading Cause...
Rotavirus Is The Leading Cause Of MSD In Infants
Rotavirus was the leading cause of moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) in infants – reinforcing the importance of rotavirus vaccines – and Shigella,...
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 The European Union is by far ...
The European Union is by far the largest donor in The Gambia
Madam Agnès Guillaud,Chargée d’Affaires a.i.Delegation of the European Union to The Gambia told a very colorful gathering of a cross section of...
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Imam Baba Leigh Breaths Air of...
Imam Baba Leigh Breaths Air of Freedom; After 158 Days of Detention
The erudite Imam  of the Kanifing East Mosque, Imam Baba Leigh  was at last freed on the night of Friday May 10th 2013. He was arrested on 3rd...
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Two journalists detained on Pr...
Two journalists detained on Press Freedom Day, charged with criminal defamation
The Freetown Court No.3 on May 6, 2013, charged Kasho Cole and Ibrahim Samura, Managing Editor and editor respectively of privately-owned Prime...
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MFWA Director Charge Ghana Pol...
MFWA Director Charge Ghana Police to Prosecute Bodyguards for locking up Journalists
The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has charged the Ghana Police Service to act swiftly, arrest and prosecute...
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Minister’s Statement Shatters ...
Minister’s Statement Shatters Journalists’ Hopes
After years of unconvincing environment for Journalists and journalism in the Gambia, journalists were hopeful that the appointment of the new...
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No Press Freedom As Another Wo...
No Press Freedom As Another World Press Freedom Day is Observed In The Gambia
Another World Press Freedom Day was around last Friday 3rd May 2013. Unfortunately we in the Gambia cannot boast of any press freedom as we mark...
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London Holds International Con...
London Holds International Conference On Somalia
For more than three decades the people of Somalia live under terror and lack of rule of law. Her citizen suffered more than enough, this date’s way...
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Another inequitable national h...
Another inequitable national honours list
Once again, the Gambian public has been treated to another very long list of socalled national awards recipients; 325 individuals and institutions...
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American Embassy Observed Worl...
American Embassy Observed World Press Freedom Day.
The embassy of the United States of America on Thursday 2 May 2013 , marked the World Press Freedom Day in advace at his residence. A cross section...
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 Gambia and Ethiopia Are among...
Gambia and Ethiopia Are among the nations holding journalists in jail
As the world celebrates world press freedom day today May 3, there are lot of journalist in Africa who are behind bars and others killed for carrying...
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Ex-Embattled Jammeh & Co. Case...
Ex-Embattled Jammeh & Co. Case Set For Trial
Hearing will begin in the trial of ex-embattled director general of National Drug Enforcement Agency NDEA together with three top officials come May...
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Observations of Journalist Pa ...
Observations of Journalist Pa Nderry’s String of Covert Interviews With Ministers
With the prank interview of the Gambia’s number two on Freedom Radio  fresh in mind, during which Vice President Dr. Ajaratou Isatou Njie Siady...
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Gambia Press Union Will Celebr...
Gambia Press Union Will Celebrate World Press Freedom Day Tomorrow
The Gambia Press Union (GPU) will mark the World Press Freedom Day tomorrow the 3rd of May 2013. The celebrations will take a form of a procession...
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Benedict Jammeh & Co. Pleaded ...
Benedict Jammeh & Co. Pleaded Not Guilty on 45 Criminals Counts But….
The former director general and public relation officer of National Drug Enforcement Agency has denied charges of economic crimes, false information...
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Child Protection Alliance Holds Training For Official Tourist Guides
A day long training workshop was held at Baobab hotel resorts last week. The training which was meant for Tourist Guides brought together 30...
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Brave Hamat Bah
Brave Hamat Bah
Dear Editor, I am not sure where it was but I recently read of Hamat Bah being castigated for being a “Jammeh Stooge” and a “Sell-Out”. I think there...
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Independent Candidate for London Corner Ward Cries Foul
The local government election is over but the harassment still continues, claimed Ismaila Gitteh. Gitteh who felt disappointed by Mayor Colley’s...
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Glenpool’s new mayor, Momodou ...
Glenpool’s new mayor, Momodou Ceesay, sets goal for full-service community
“Gambia’s Momodou Ceesay is the new mayor of Glenpool USA. Ceesay went to the USA some 30 years ago, and little did he know he could be the mayor of...
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Gambia Gov't  Allays Fears On ...
Gambia Gov't Allays Fears On The Use Of Skype and Viber
The Gambia government has clarified that the use of some internet based-communication tools such as Skype and Viber is not banned. A statement from...
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 Amendment Criminalising Dress...
Amendment Criminalising Dress And Others ....... Said Halifa
Having been a parliamentarian you may understand why I have taken interest in the debate of the members of parliament on the motion you submitted to...
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Free Internet Phone Services P...
Free Internet Phone Services Prohibited In Gambia
Internet Services Providers (ISPs), Cyber cafés owners, and Internet users in Gambia will now have to avoid using popular internet messaging...
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The Use of Dating Services in ...
The Use of Dating Services in Internet Cafes Ban in Gambia
Skype and Viber users will no longer used dating services in internet cafes because they have been warned to immediately desist from doing so. A...
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Gambia Government passes stiff law on false information
The National Assembly of The Gambia on April 16, 2013, amended sections of the country’s Criminal Code to empower the Courts to mete out stiffer...
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How our legal experts continue...
How our legal experts continue to fail us
Once again, the professionalism and sincerity of some of our socalled legal luminaries is quite questionable, especially in the way and manner they...
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Kukoi Sanyang v Senegal
Kukoi Sanyang v Senegal
Kukoi Samba Sanyang, a native of Wassadu village Foni has being in the political life of the Gambia since 1977 when he first contested the...
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Nelson Mandela’s Speech of 196...
Nelson Mandela’s Speech of 1964;An ideal for which I am prepared to die - part 2
Nelson Mandela made this speech in April of 1964 at his trail. Today this speech is rated as one of the great speeches in the world. He has since...
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"An ideal for which I am prepared to die "- Nelson Mandela April 1964 part 1
I am the first accused. I hold a bachelor's degree in arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with...
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Abused, Insulted And Treated A...
Abused, Insulted And Treated AS Foreigner At Kanilai. My Hours Of Horrow In President Jammeh’s Native Village!
WHAT A SUNDAY AT KANILAI! I had a very busy week working on my project and honuoring invitations by various youth groups in the country. On Thursday...
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What Natural Resources Is President Jammeh Talking About?
 “As we speak I have evidence of some of the natural resources that we have, that in no time can bring in rapid socio-economic development for this...
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'CRR Women Slam FGM As Harmful...
'CRR Women Slam FGM As Harmful, Surrender Knives'
It was a  moment filled with emotions under the  sunny afternoon in  historical village of Wassu, North of Central River Region, where 30...
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Essential pillars are missing ...
Essential pillars are missing in our Gambian football: Youth & Sports minister
 “We have not been in the essential place; because the essential pillars of our football are not there,”  Alieu Jammeh the Youth and Sports minister...
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"Investigate The Disappearance of Baba Leigh and Return Him Well and Fit" UK High Commission
Today sees the publication of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy.  “It is a matter of disappointment...
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Personal Greed Destroying Nati...
Personal Greed Destroying National Grid A case of social decline where symptoms are treated leaving causes at a cost
Selfishness and greed for personal possession are two major social ills affecting more than half the population yet everyone seems pointing fingers...
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Fort Bullen Museum Commissione...
Fort Bullen Museum Commissioned
The Fort Bullen Museum was commissioned on April 10, 2013. This new development has face lifted the tourism industry, and also that of the only...
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FGM ; It’s All  A Mere Traditi...
FGM ; It’s All A Mere Tradition to Me
Thirty women circumcisers vowed to stop Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Does it mean that  Gamcotrap’s campaign to eradicate this deep-rooted...
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Hamat Bah Reacts To Jammeh's C...
Hamat Bah Reacts To Jammeh's Call For Gambians To Work Together
Banjul - The leader of the National Reconciliation Party (NRP) reacted to President Yahya Jammeh's call for 'Gambians to work together regardless of...
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Government to Set up National ...
Government to Set up National Human Rights Commission
Banjul - Gambia Attorney General and Justice Minister Lamin Jobarteh has expressed the government's resolve to come up with a national commission to...
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Gambia Among Others Applied De...
Gambia Among Others Applied Death penalty in 2012
The world was close to a death penalty free world; when countries like the Gambia executed some nine death row prisoners in 2012 amidst calls for...
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Another April 10th anniversary – still waiting for justice
As Gambians and people of conscience all over the world mark the 13th anniversary of the April 10 and 11 student demo which was brutally suppressed...
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“Mothers Whose Tears are Rolli...
“Mothers Whose Tears are Rolling down Will Have Their Tears Wipe out One Day” Lawyer Ousainou Darboe
As yet another April 10 is here the leader and Secretary General of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) Lawyer Ousainou Darboe in an...
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Independent Candidate Claims T...
Independent Candidate Claims That the Elections Were Not Free and Fair
Sheikh Omar Saho the Mayoral   Independent candidate for kanifing Municipality claims that the local government elections were not free and fair. He...
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Baroness Thatcher has died
The first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Baroness Thatcher has died, from a stroke aged 87 her spokesperson confirmed today.  The...
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The World Needs a New Framewor...
The World Needs a New Framework That Links Development With Justice and Human Rights
Madi Jorbateh is the deputy executive director of The Association of Non Governmental Organisations (TANGO). He presents a paper at the justice and...
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''Rights and Justice Are the M...
''Rights and Justice Are the Missing link in the MDGs '' Madi Jorbateh
Madi Jorbateh the deputy executive director at The Association of Non Governmental Organisation (TANGO) who presented a paper entitled Placing Human...
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Some Pertinent Lessons of the Local Government Elections
While most Gambians have now given up any participation in all elections as being just another ritualistic exercise in futility, whose real impact on...
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The rise in violent crime – so...
The rise in violent crime – some lessons for President Jammeh
 While as usual, President Yahya Jammeh’s state of the nation address delivered at the National Assembly on 28th March no doubt contained some...
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Fatou Bensouda v. Uhuru Kenyatta - Round 2
Editor, Remember when I wrote you an exclusive last month in the following words? “I can absolutely guarantee you that Uhuru Kenyatta will never...
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Daily News Clocks Four Years
Daily News Clocks Four Years
Saturday April 6, 2013: Exactly four years ago today, an independent newspaper, The Daily News, hit the streets of Gambia and improved the face of...
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