[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Gambia's former president Yahya Jammeh whose rule was characterised by allegations of widespread abuses is faced with a forfeiture process in U.S. courts.

[The Point] Highly placed multiple sources confirmed to The Point that proceeds from the sale of the $3 million Potomac mansion of former President Jammeh in Maryland will be earmarked for the Gambian people, after sales and other procedures followed...

[The Point] Many compounds in the Campama Estate or Tobacco Road area of the capital city of Banjul got inundated on Sunday, 26 September 2021, when the waste water in the open canal stretching from Box Bar Road to Bund Road overflowed. This followed...

[The Point] Chimo United FC last Tuesday shared spoils with Misira United FC in the 2021-2022 Brikama nawetan season.

[The Point] Deputy permanent secretary at the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE) has revealed that public schools in the country outperformed private schools in 2021 Gambia Basic Certificate Examination (GABECE).

[The Point] In a bid to coordinate and ensure one central source of accessing information on road crash incidences, the Planning Unit at The Ministry of Transport, Works and Infrastructure (MoTWI) recently convened a two- day workshop on how to revie...

[The Point] Gambia Clubfoot Foundation recently trained scores of Gambian nurses at the Brikama District Hospital on clubfoot treatment.

[The Point] Human actions have created a world in which it is becoming ever more difficult to adequately and sustainably feed and nourish the human population.

[The Point] Marie Antoinette Corr, secretary general of The Gambia Teachers Union (GTU) has called on government to invest in teachers and give priority to them in education efforts to ensure every learner has access to a qualified and supported teac...

[The Point] The vice president of The Gambia, Dr. Isatou Touray has stated that the government under President Adama Barrow has deliberately prioritised social protection mechanism and safety nets since the advent of his government.

[The Point] The Gambia Football Players Association (GFPA) over the weekend organised its first ever football award at a ceremony held at Pencha Mi Hall.

[The Point] Senegalese Premier League side Cassa Sports yesterday, Tuesday, arrived in The Gambia after their 2021 Senegalese FA Cup win over FC Diambar.

[The Point] Children and young people could feel the impact of COVID-19 on their mental health and well-being for many years to come, UNICEF warned in its flagship report.

[The Point] The Gambia senior national team; the Scorpions yesterday, Tuesday held their first training session ahead of their international friendly clash with Morocco CHAN team on 7 October 2021.

[The Point] Scorpion's striker Assan Ceesay guided his Swiss top flight team FC Zurich to a 6-2 demolition of FC Sion in their week-9 fixture of the Swiss Super League played at the Stadion Letzigrund on Sunday.

[ISS] The president's new alliance will make it difficult to meet electoral promises of justice for Jammeh-era violations.

[The Point] Official court documents of the U.S. District Court of Maryland acquired by The Point confirmed that the Yahya Jammeh Family in Equatorial Guinea have been served with U.S. Court documents requiring their response to suits of forfeiture a...

[Foroyaa] The Drug Law Enforcement Agency Gambia (DLEAG) on Tuesday said the National Human Rights Council (NHRC) is presently investigating allegations of assault and abuse on Mr (name withheld), who is suspected for the possession of cannabis sativ...

[Foroyaa] The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday, 4th October 2021, launched a diaspora mentorship program in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[The Point] In most of the communities in the country and even elsewhere around the globe, lands are mostly owned by men. Thus women have little access and rights to ownership of lands where they could cultivate.

[The Point] The Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) has announced that it will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday 9 October 2021 at Paradise Suites Hotel.

[The Point] The delegation from The Gambia yesterday, Monday arrived in Casablanca, Morocco ahead of their upcoming international training camp.

[The Point] Passamai FC on Sunday beat Santos United FC 3-0 in the all-Santos derby combat of the 2021-2022 Gunjur nawetan played at the Gunjur Upper Basic School Football Field.

[The Point] According to reports reaching The Point, a 4-year-old boy was stabbed to death by a 3-year-old in Sami Suruwa Kunda, Central River Region on 30 September 2021.

[The Point] The National Executive Committee of The Gambia Teachers' Union (GTU) has called on government of The Gambia to invest more by prioritising education recovery efforts so that every learner has access to a qualified and supported teacher.

[The Point] In a bid to expand its services in the country, the West Africa Takaful Insurance Company has recently inaugurated a new branch in Brusubi. The insurance company, with principles based on Islamic insurance and Sharia, uses Islamic system ...

[The Point] Gambian international striker Musa Barrow scored a remarkable curler goal to help his Italian Serie A side Bologna beat Lazio 3-0 at home in their week-7 fixture of the Italian Serie A played at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara on Sunday.

[The Point] Gambia Horticultural Enterprises (GHE) in partnership with International Trade Centre (ITC) recently donated food processing and horticultural equipment to forty (40) students, who completed a two-month intensive course in agro food proce...

[The Point] Three young men in one of the villages in the Upper River Region (URR) have been remanded at the Janjangbureh Prison in the Central River Region (CRR) for allegedly raping a 16 year-old girl; The Point has been reliably informed.

[The Point] The nature and set up of some communities have given rise to widely held stereotypes associated with certain jobs in terms of equal representation between male and their female counterparts. Well, one Mariama Jallow is about to defy the o...