South Africa: Agric, Culture, People and the Sky

South Africa is a water scarce country where only 12 per cent of land can be used for crop production, but it is Africa’s largest producer and the only net exporter of food on the continent, says Nico van Burick, chairperson of the Local Organising Committee for the 2017 IFAJ World Congress. In this photo, Vito Rugani (center) displays carrots to a visiting team of IFAJ delegates at his carrot packaging and juice factory in the Gauteng region. He moved from rags to riches in 20 years and used to sleep on the floor at an apartment in Johannesburg in the early 1990s. Today, Rugani and his partner, Vincent Sequeira, produces 40% of South Africa's carrots (Photo Credit: M.S.Joof/TNBES/April 4)

Gambia: Enhancing food security will take national vision, local action

More than 170 project staff and beneficiaries taking part in the annual consultative forum (Photo credit: M.S.Joof/TNBES/Feb 2017)

For Gambia to enhance food security, strategy and implementation must be linked to attain food security and reduce poverty, the Agriculture Ministry’s permanent secretary Sait Drammeh said.

Gambian blogger Mamadou Edrisa Njie writes about social media 'success story'

Is social media the next gold mine for Gambian youth?

Mamadou Edrisa Njie (R) photo: Facebook/Niani Edrisanjie Kanda

If someone had told me that a few years ago that using the social media will one day land me in a job, I would have totally disagreed with that person, be it an expert, a researcher or a fortuneteller. In fact, this wasn’t because I didn’t know what social media was all about but mainly because I was ONLY passionately on Facebook to chart with friends with some that I don’t know.

Here I am, [I] have signed a six month-contract with one of the best IT Service Providers in The Gambia to be its “Social Media Administrator”. A post I only knew existed during the signing of the contract.

Being born and brought up in the rural community of The Gambia where young people trek several kilometers to access internet to use the social media-Facebook and Skype, today, I count myself a one of the luckiest to have had the opportunity to access the social media anytime, anywhere thanks to an IPAD provided by Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) International.

THE GAMBIA: TWIST IN WORKWEEK CUT

Unionist says it must halt 

President Jammeh is bestowed with a wide-range of executive powers - from hiring and firing to changing the nomenclature of institutions or workdays and hours/Photo: Wikipedia

Gambia: Workweek cut for rest, worship and farming

A local fears the move might encourage laziness: party goers attend an open-air music concert in Latrikunda German/photo/Modou S. Joof/May 2012

ILO projects another rise in world jobless in 2013

Five years after the onset of the financial crisis, global unemployment is on the rise again. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images