Gambia to pass law criminalizing market manipulation

The process of creating a new law on market manipulation is meant to comply with regional and global standards, says Alhagie Darboe, FIU director (Photo Credit: @JoofMS/TNBES).

Banjul host sub-regional workshop on fight against Hezbollah’s financial activity

In 2013, Yahya Jammeh expelled a Lebanese mogul whose businesses are blacklisted by the US government for allegedly "funding the Hezbollah movement" and "engaging in money laundering.” Photo Credit: AFP

Gambian Guild Joins Global Agric Journalists Federation

NAC, DFAJ trainers and community radio journalists at the launch of a 19-month training on agriculture reporting, Nov. 2015 (Photo Credit: Dawda Bayo)

Activists Say ‘New Evidence’ Shows Jammeh Killed West African Migrants

Massacre survivor Martin Kyere at Accra cemetery where six bodies were returned from Gambia. © 2018 Bénédict De Moerloose/TRIAL International

South Africa's Winnie Mandela Dies at 81

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela waves as she attends the 54th ANC national conference in Johannesburg on Dec. 16, 2017 (Mujahid Safodien | AFP | Getty Images 2017)

Gambia, Senegal Implement Agreement to Strengthen Bilateral Interests

Sall and Barrow speaking to the press in Banjul,
Tuesday (photo credit: Omar Wally)

The Gambia and Senegal have concluded the first talks to strengthen what both countries say are “bilateral interests” via the newly formed Presidential Council.

The meeting, held from March 11-13, 2018 in Banjul, focused on bilateral issues of common interest.

It was preceded by talks between the Gambian President Adama Barrow and his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall. 

The Presidential Council (of experts and ministers) was set up by a joint communique between the two countries in March 2017 at the visit of the Gambian president to Senegal.

It would meet every six months, alternatively, in The Gambia and Senegal, under the joint chairmanship of the two heads of state.

The meeting, attended by officials of the two governments, examined all issues of bilateral interest.

Officials of the two countries said the biannual meeting would provide guidance to the two governments for deepening cooperation.

Restrictions on industrial fishing

Decisions reached by the Council are to be implemented by the Senegalo-Gambian Permanent Committee, which is co-chaired by the Vice-President of The Gambia and the Prime Minister of Senegal. 

Gambia, Senegal Agree on Border Policing to Fight Timber Trafficking

For several years, Senegal has been seeking Gambia’s cooperation to deal with a long standing low-intensity rebellion in the Casamance region, and to tackle illegal timber trade (Photo taken from phys.org)

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2018: ‘THE EVERY WOMAN’ LAUNCHED

Co-founders of 'The Every Woman': Above L-R: Ndey Joberteh, Nyima Touray, Neneh Bojang
Below L-R: Yassin Jeng, Monica Njie, Maimuna Sey (Photos taken from The Every Woman)

Gambia rejoins ‘neo-colonial’ Commonwealth

Jammeh said the “Commonwealth remains at best a neo-colonial institution and at worst an animal farm, an idea which The Gambia will never subscribe to”. (Photo/EPA)

If You Save You Must Borrow, Teachers' Credit Union Manager Says

The Gambia Teachers' Union Cooperative Credit Union, GTUCCU, the is largest and arguably the most vibrant credit union in the country. It has transformed the lives of teachers and greatly raised their dignity (Photo Credit: Access Gambia)

Teachers Strike Rescheduled

The taskforce committee for the group has called off the planned strike and urged its members to return to work until further notice (Photo Credit: GTU).