Gambia Economic Growth to See a Slight Increase in 2025

 

Women at the Serekunda market. Photo Credit: @JoofMS | TNBES | April 7, 2020 

The Gambia will see a slight increase in real GDP growth this year, according to a new forecast by market analyst, Fitch Solutions, published in July.

Gambia Tourism Arrivals in 2024 Highest Since Pre-Pandemic Record

A photo of Banjul, Gambia's Capital City taken from above ground. Photo Credit: Visit Gambia

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)

In a First, ECOWAS Partners a Member State to Prosecute Crimes Against Humanity

 

Gambia's ex-president Yahya Jammeh speaks to journalists after casting his ballot in the Nov. 2011 presidential election (PHOTO: AFP)

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

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 Constitutional Review Seeks Two-Term Limit for Presidents

Adama Barrow receives a copy of the draft constitution at State House in Banjul on Monday, March 30, 2020 (Photo taken from State House)

Gambia fears economic crisis after Thomas Cook collapse

Efforts to revive an economy “completely destroyed” by Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, have been dealt a severe blow by Thomas Cook’s collapse (Photo: Modou S. Joof | TNBES | May 2019).

Gambia’s First Post-Independence President Jawara Dies

Prime Minister Jawara with David Ben-Gurion and General Moshe Dayan during a visit to Israel in 1962 (Photo by Moshe Pridan).

France begins training of Gambia police on crowd control

Anti-riot police restrain a protestor during a demonstration against police brutality on Feb. 18, 2017 on the place de la Republique in Paris, France. (AFP Photo)

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: Truth Commission’s ‘Never Again’ Objective Should Be Collective Enterprise

President Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the tiny West African country for 22 years, was forced to step-down in 2017 by ECOWAS forces after he refused to cede power following an election defeat to current president, Adama Barrow. (Photo: EPA)

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

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)

Gambian Girl Stabbed A Second Time For Choosing A Husband

'Women and girls in The Gambia are victims of gender-based violence, and with very little support for redress, they are harassed to silence.' Photo Credit: UN Photo / M. Perret -Violence against women

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).