The National Coordinating Organization for Farmers Associations in the Gambia NACOFAG in collaboration with the ROOTS Project supported the National Association of Food Processors (NAFP) for the conduct of Regional Consultations for the 6 Agricultural Regions and the Greater Banjul Area. According to the National Coordinator of NACOFAG, Alieu Sowe, the objective of the consultation is to reorganize the membership of the Association, its Regional committees, Governance structure in terms of roles and responsibilities, access to information, markets and stakeholder’s partnership building at the ..read more

There were disapprovals over the traffic quagmire created by the Gambia’s Vice President’s motorcade on every morning of every working day. Vice President Momodou Jallow remained reluctant to move to the well-manicured and fortified seafront official VP residence in Fajara. His predecessor, late Dr. Alieu Badara Joof, also refused to relocate to the residence following the termination of his predecessor’s services. VP Jallow, like Dr. Joof, has been accused of causing traffic stresses along the roads of the Greater Banjul Area. He currently lives in Farato in the western region of The Gambia ..read more

The sleepy birthplace of Yahya Jammeh is expected to come alive this weekend as the former President reportedly directed all APRC members to be thick on the ground in Kanilai to celebrate the July 22 military takeover. According to the leader of APRC-No-To-Alliance Yaya Tamba, he was given the nod by President Jammeh to inform party members about his (Jammeh) directive for all roads to lead to Kanilai this weekend to commemorate the 1994 coup. As part of the planned activities, a fund-raising event is expected to be organized. Recitation of the Qur’an is also on the menu. Former President Yah ..read more

Suspected saboteurs have been reportedly threatening the security of Samba Juma and Fatoto bridges in the Upper River Region (URR) of The Gambia but local and police authorities in the region have vowed to proportionately deal with anyone found culpable of the suspected sabotage. The governor of URR and the regional police commander have already visited the bridges to see on first-hand the magnitude of the suspected vandalism. Regional authorities believed that some elements have attempted to compromise the security of the bridges by loosening the knot balls that tighten them. Regional police ..read more

Despite the suspected violent robbery of a Lebanese businessman in his house in Old Jeshwang little over two years ago, the Serekunda suburb remains relatively peaceful but the acute logistical challenge facing the area’s only police station is putting this gain in serious threat of a reversal. In the absence of an official statistics, this medium has not been able to give an accurate police/resident ratio in Old Jeshwang as per its current strength, but it’s believed to be in thousands. The area’s ill-equipped station has no vehicle to respond to crime and it used to run out of stationeries ..read more

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The Gambia’s legislature has asked the country’s health ministry to track payments of Covid-19 allowances effected without the signatures of the said beneficiaries.  Permanent secretary at the health ministry Muhammadou Lamin Jaiteh earlier this week told the National Assembly’s Finance and Public Accounts Committee (FPAC) sitting that it was difficult to “reconcile…because of the frequent movement of staff”. However, the Chairman of FPAC, Alhagie S. Darboe, asked the health ministry PS to endeavour harder to convince FPAC on Covid allowance payments that his ministry claimed to have mad ..read more

The Senegambia toll bridge has become the latest strategic national asset to be leased by the Gambia government without public knowledge. Before surrendering the rights over the bridge to Africa 50 at $100m, the Barrow administration reached a roundly-criticized multi-million-dollar agreement with SecuriPort to allow the security company levy airport fees on travellers. It took outbursts of anger and outpouring of condemnations from the public before government came out with its side of the story. As for the Africa 50 deal, we only heard it from the interview the finance minister had with a f ..read more

The National Assembly of The Gambia has tasked the country’s health ministry to offer explanation about nearly D1. 5m allowances it claimed to have paid Covid-19 frontline workers. The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Health, Muhammadou Lamin Jaiteh, on Monday appeared at the National Assembly in Banjul, where members of the legislature’s Finance and Public Accounts Committee (FPAC) met to deliberate on the National Audit Office’s findings on the Covid-19 funds.  The health ministry has yet to offer clarity about close to D1. 5m it said was paid to individuals on government payroll ..read more