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)

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'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)

ICJ Rules in Gambia’s Favour, Orders Myanmar to Protect Rohingya

Judges unanimously agreed Myanmar had caused "irreparable damage" to rights of the Rohingya people - seen in this photo at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh in October 2017 (Photo Credit: Tasnim News Agency)

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)

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)

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.

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)

P2RS Training Rural Youth to Become Self-Reliant

Undertaking perilous journeys to Europe via deserts and high seas has been the thought of many young Gambians (male and female) – who often cite the “lack of opportunities” at home. (Photo Credit: M.E.Njie)

Alarm Bell Ringing For Women, Youth to Develop Bankable Business Plans – Agric Director

The organisers said the aim of the training is to build the entrepreneurial skills of women and young people to reduce the dependency rate and to eradicate irregular migration to Europe.

Gambia Says Withdrawing From International Court Targeting ‘People of Colour’

African leaders accuse of the ICC “witch-hunting” but rights groups said it's a good mechanism for justice (Photo taken from Veterans Today)

The Westfield Clinic: Japan-funded medical equipment already making impact

Dr. Ayo Palmer, medical director Westfield Clinic shows pieces of medical equipment to Mr. Hideya Sato, first secretary Embassy of Japan in Senegal during a tour of equipment (Photo Credit: MSJoof/TNBES/Oct. 2016

Gambia: GIABA to Assist Financial Institutions on ML/TF Risk Assessment

The anti-money laundering agency, GIABA, has said it is to assist financial institutions in The Gambia to effectively address existing challenges and new requirements emerging from the revised Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Standards and the new methodology.

This will include Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) risk assessment and application of risk-based approach to the anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing Terrorism (AML/CFT) implementation.

GIABA announced on Friday that it will hold a 3-day national workshop on ML and TF risk assessment for financial institutions and Designated Non-Financial Institutions Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs) in Banjul from July 27-29, 2016.

GIABA to Sensitize Gambian Youths on Ills of Money Laundering, Financing Terrorism

Cross section of participants at the 7th edition of the GIABA Open House Forum in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 2013 (Photo Credit: GIABA)

South Sudan: Rights Body Says Can't Consider Communications Against African Country

South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on 9 July, 2011 but internal fighting is standing in the way of the country's progress and brought about widespread human rights abuses, according to agencies. (Photo taken from BBC)

Global Mission’s Concert for Gambia to Raise Funds for Juffureh

The concert is meant to seek donations (in cash and labor) to help build a chicken farm for sustainable agriculture for Juffureh (Photo provided by Global Mission Society)

Brikamaba: Women Turn to Gardens After Failed Rice Growing Season

After a failed rice-growing season, women turn to gardens in Brikamaba, CRR (Photo by M.S. Joof/TNBES)

Some three hundred and ten women in Brikamaba, Lower Fulladu West of the Central River Region (CRR) have turned to gardening to fight off food security threats after a failed rice-growing season.

More than five hundred women and their families, 282 kilometers from the Gambian capital, Banjul, saw their rice fields completely destroyed by floods following torrential rains between July and September in 2015, the villagers told TNBES on Friday.

Gambia: Proposed FGM Bill 'Downplayed'

Anti-FGM campaigners argue that the lack of a law banning the practice weakens the legitimacy and impact of advocacy against harmful tradition practice. Activists Amie Bojang Sissoho, Dr. Isatou Touray, Amie Sillah and Mary Small at Monday's launch of One Billion Rising 2016 (Photo Credit: MSJoof/TNBES/Octover 2015)