Award-Winning Film Scholar Becomes First Gambian To Run For Elections in Germany

On 17 September 2016, Piratenpartei's Parliamentary candidate Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu joined the national solidarity action against UNFAIR global trade (Photo Credit: Sankanu/Facebook)

GIABA: Saly Forum Tackles Emerging Anti-Money Laundering Issues In West Africa

President of ECOWAS Commission, HE Marcel Alain de Souza (middle) flanked by Director General of GIABA, HE Mr. Adama Coulibaly (left) and Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, HE Mustapha Cisse Lo (right) and other participants at the “Regional Stakeholders Forum on Emerging Global AML/CFT Issues and Implications for GIABA Member States” in Saly, Senegal (Tuesday 16 – Thursday 18 August 2016)

Governor Puye Tells Youth: Seek Funding And You Will be Assisted

Governor Puye said the youth should  to take up entrepreneurship (Photo Credit MSJoof/TNBES/July2016)

Top Academic Journal Publishes Sankanu’s Article on Frantz Fanon, African Cinema

Prince Sankanu speaks to Modou S. Joof, publisher of The North Bank Evening Standard, on his film project (photo: MENjie/2012)

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.