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More messages for President Jammeh

@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } The Gambian leader, His Excellency, Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh continues to receive more congratulatory messages following his landslide victory in the 21011 November presidential polls. The messages read: On the occasion of your inauguration to the high post of...

GPA staff faces D6M economic crime charge

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IMF releases report on Gambia economy

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Ousman Sonko now ambassador to Spain

@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Barely a week after his reappointment as the minister of the Interior, the president of the Republic of The Gambia, His Excellency, Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has redeployed Ousman Sonko to the Foreign Services and appointed him as The Gambia’s ambassador to the Kingdom of...

Detained GPA officials released on bail

@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Officials of the Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) who were detained by the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA) in connection with the “missing” fully loaded container(s) at the Port of Banjul have been released on bail and asked to report back to work, a reliable source has...

Women empowerment on the move

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178 personnel of Republican National Guards promoted

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Jaliba Kuyateh donates to AFPRC Hospital

@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Jaliba Kuyateh, a renowned Gambian musician, who is also Unicef’s Goodwill ambassador, on behalf of the Kombo Sillah Gambia Association based in the United Kingdom and one Saihou Jammeh, a Gambian-based in Spain, Wednesday presented 20 chairs, two cartons of medical items and...

YJAG executive meets board chairperson

@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } The new executive of the Young Journalists Association of The Gambia (YJAG) Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Amie Bojang-Sissoho, the board chairperson of the Association, who is also the programme coordinator of Gamcotrap, at her office in Kanifing. Speaking at the meeting,...

Journalists sensitised on disability issues

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