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Deputy Speaker Underscores Skills as Pillar of Gambia’s Socioeconomic Growth
The Voice Gambia
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June 30, 2025
By: Haddy Touray The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Seedy S.K. Njie, has reaffirmed the critical role of technical and vocational skills in shaping The Gambia’s future, stressing that skills development not academic degrees alone...
Business Support Organizations Launch ‘Gambia Good Market’ Initiative
The Voice Gambia
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June 30, 2025
By: Binta Jaiteh Two business support organisations have recently launched the ‘Gambia Good Market’ (GGM), an initiative designed to boost local market access and strengthen partnerships for businesses in the tourism and creative industries. The...
China’s Agricultural Revolution: Lessons For Nigeria
Prompt News Online
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June 30, 2025
By Kemi Yesufu, who recently returned from China The 1949 revolution, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), resulted in the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China and the CCP’s consolidation of power on the mainland. Several years...
GSCC, GWCC launch Banjul trade fair, hosts Gambia’s Good Market
The Point
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The initiative, delivered in partnership with the International Trade Centre (ITC) through the EU-YEP–funded Tourism and Creative Industries Project, aims to enhance market access and forge stronger partnerships for micro, small, and medium-sized...
Gambia’s creatives selected to represent The Gambia at the International Competition in Russia.
The Voice Gambia
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June 27, 2025
By: Bakary Ceesay The Kardo National Stage was held in the Gambia, where Gambian creatives competed in the disciplines of DJing, Hip-hop, and Graffiti. It was an intense competition between the participants to get the chance to represent the...
Gambia Loses Millions to Illicit Financial Flows- Dr. Manneh
The Voice Gambia
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June 27, 2025
By: Nyima Sillah Former Senior Official in Regional Integration at African Development Bank (ADB), Dr. Lamin Manneh says Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are draining millions from The Gambia, undermining infrastructure development, agriculture, and...
How Europe’s appetite for farmed fish is gutting Gambia's coastal villages
Modern Ghana
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Gambian fishermen are watching their future disappear. Their catches are shrinking, their costs are climbing and their boats are increasingly idle. Much of the fish they once relied on is now hauled away by foreign trawlers – not to feed people,...
Gambians lead in drug abuse cases, says DLEAG DG
The Point
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He made this disclosure during the commemoration of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking, commonly known as World Drug Day, held at the President’s International Award (PIA) Centre. Speaking at the event, DG Ceesay...
Gambia Sets Fertilizer Price at GMD 1,100 Per Bag with GMD 1,875 Government Subsidy
The Fatu Network
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June 26, 2025
- Advertisement - Written by: The Fatu Network Newsroom The Gambian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Security announced today that fertilizer will be sold to farmers at GMD 1,100 per bag for the current farming season, with 28,892...
Goldstar Air Celebrates Ghana’s National Day Of Prayer And Thanksgiving
News Ghana
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July 1, 2025
Ghanaian and United States registered company Goldstar Air, a private international airline with an issued Air Carrier Licence (ACL/N-SCH No. 0239) from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to operate passenger and cargo flights across West...
Gambia’s first workers depart for Spain in historic circular migration deal
The Point
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The initiative, designed to promote safe, legal, and productive migration, marks a milestone in bilateral cooperation between The Gambia and Spain, offering new employment opportunities for Gambians in Spain’s agricultural sector. At a...
Gambian seafarers call for end to harassment at sea
The Point
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They alleged that most of the harassment and discrimination are meted out to them by foreigners, faulting authorities for turning a blind eye to their issues. These disturbing tales include sometimes working under appalling conditions which...
Environment Minister Unveils Clean Energy Plan, Ditching Charcoal
Foroyaa Newspaper
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June 26, 2025
By Kebba AF Touray In a renewed effort to protect the country’s depleting forests and mitigate environmental degradation, Environment Minister Rohey John Manjang has outlined the government’s strategy to substitute charcoal burning with cleaner,...
Sen. Kyari: Driving Tinubu’s agenda for agricultural renaissance, by Sufuyan Ojeifo
Eagle Online
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June 27, 2025
For a nation that once towered as West Africa’s agricultural beacon, Nigeria’s gradual slide into food import dependency was an unheralded catastrophe, largely accepted with a shrug and managed through unsustainable quick fixes. Today, however,...
Senator Abubakar Kyari: Driving Tinubu’s agenda for agricultural renaissance, by Sufuyan Ojeifo
Prompt News Online
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June 27, 2025
For a nation that once towered as West Africa’s agricultural beacon, Nigeria’s gradual slide into food import dependency was an unheralded catastrophe, largely accepted with a shrug and managed through unsustainable quick fixes. Today, however,...
Gambia cannot afford to fail the forthcoming test on change in 2026
The Point
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Here I am speaking to Gambians and doing so loud and clear. I am concerned thus that concern urges me to urgently speak to Gambians yearning for a meaningful change, Gambians who are yet to decide which party or candidate to vote for, Gambians...
Wyndham Hotels to Open First Branded Resort in The Gambia
Rus Tourism News
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June 26, 2025
Ramada Resort by Wyndham Banjul is set to become the first internationally branded hotel in The Gambia, marking a significant step forward for the country’s tourism industry. This new development, a collaboration between G Wellness Company...
Gambia Launches Historic Circular Migration Program as First Workers Depart for Spain
The Voice Gambia
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June 24, 2025
By: Yunus .S. Saliu The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration, and Employment (MOTIE), in partnership with the Spanish Embassy in The Gambia, has officially oriented and dispatched the first batch of Gambian workers under a historic...
Reform is not a command: Why resistance in The Gambia tells us more than we think
The Standard Gambia
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June 26, 2025
- Advertisement - By Dr Lamin K Janneh Since 2016, “reform” has become one of the most repeated words in Gambian public life. From security to civil service, from decentralisation to digitisation, almost every national conversation begins or ends...
Environment Minister Outlines Tougher Sand Mining Rules, Clean Energy Push
The Voice Gambia
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June 26, 2025
By: Fatou Krubally The Minister of Environment Rohey John-Manjang, has told the National Assembly that government is stepping up efforts to rehabilitate degraded sand mining sites and promote cleaner energy sources to reduce deforestation. Mrs...