Gambia Holds First Anti-FGM Prosecution Since Ban Was Upheld Last Year

            In 2023, the first conviction and sentencing against FGM practice were recorded

Gambia’s Record Remittances Make up Over a Third of GDP

Remittances have become a major source of foreign exchange for The Gambia (Photo by Mass Njie | TNBES | August 13, 2019)

Pres. Barrow: Dramatic Rise in Coronavirus Cases and Deaths Sad

Red Cross Covid-19 Burial Team heads out on daily routine of burying corpses. Photo taken from Eye Africa TV

Gambian Minister Who Brought Myanmar to Justice Joins U.N.

Staff of the Ministry of Justice watch as Abubacarr Tambadou announces his resignation Friday.

Gambia Prepares 1000 Hospital Beds for Projected Rise in Coronavirus Cases

The Gambia government extended its state of emergency regulations by a month and half on April 3 - asking people to stay at home without giving them incentives - so it's  business as usual for daily wage earners at the Serekunda market (pictured) Photo Credit: @JoofMS | TNBES | April 7, 2020

Gambia's Low Trade Volume Slowing Economic Relations With Turkey

Gambian and Turkish officials meet on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visit to Banjul on Monday (Photo Credit: State House)

Gambia Plans to Charge Ex-President Jammeh for Theft, Corruption

Gambia's Jammeh, a former iron-fist ruler who claimed to have extraordinary powers, now lives in Equatorial Guinea (Photo Credit: EPA)

Gambia training to build capacities of financial institutions on money laundering risks

Director of Gambia's financial intelligence unit, Alagie Darboe, said it was important to "identify, assess, and mitigate" risks associated with money laundering and terrorist financing (Photo Credit: @JoofMS/TNBES).

OPINION: The Minister of Interior Must Respect Citizens Right to Protest

Gambia's Minister of Interior, Ebrima Mballow, told a political rally on Sunday that [police] water cannon truck "will spray hot water on anyone who resorts to rudeness.” (Photo taken from Facebook)

Gambia Scraps Jammeh’s Portrait Off Currency Notes

The move has been welcomed by some Gambians on social media as new regime in Banjul gradually takes a decisive break with the country’s brutal past (PHOTO CREDIT: MSJoof / TNBES / May 2019

Gambia is 120th Happiest Country Globally - Report

Rights groups protest against impunity, perceived corruption in government and  environmental damage in Gambia in June 2018 (Photo taken from Freedom Newspaper)

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

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)

Tambadou: Money laundering, terror financing potential to fuel more crimes

The challenged aspect for civil society is to increase knowledge in the area of effect of transnational organized crimes - Adama Coulibaly, GIABA DG (Photo: GIABA Secretariat).

GIABA recognizes civil society’s potential in fight against money laundering

CSOs are usually influential in promoting good governance, human rights and fighting against corruption. GIABA Photo: A regional stakeholders meeting in Dakar on emerging global trends in AML/CFT.

AN UPHILL TASK

The Gambia: Adama Barrow

Adama Barrow astonished the world by unseating long-time autocrat Yahya Jammeh, but now faces an unenviable task of rebuilding a country left in ruin

An uphill task

Barrow is faced with a task of righting the country’s brutal political past under his predecessor. It is a process he started slowly, and after three months in office his public ratings were low, especially on social media (Photo Credit: MSJoof/TNBES/Feb 2017)

The Political Monitor With Empty Political Message

The Gambia is without a Vice President. Barrow reserves the post for the woman who gingered an opposition united front against the former dictator. But she is over-aged. (Photo Credit: M.S.Joof/TNBES/Feb2017).

Legendary Jamaican Casanova Singer, Frankie Paul, Dies at 52

In March 2014, Frankie Paul was forced to step into a Jamaican debate that suggests "dancehall music promotes crime." (Photo taken from St. Lucia News Online)

Family of ‘executed’ soldier wants thorough investigation

 In his 22 years rule, human rights groups repeatedly accused Jammeh (seen in this photo on November 10 at Election House in Kanifing) of carrying out summary executions (Photo Credit: Mamadou Erdisa Njie/Nov 2016)