[VOA] Gambia's truth commission has wrapped up more than two years of public hearings into alleged human rights violations committed during the 22-year rule of former dictator Yahya Jammeh.

[JusticeInfo.net] Banjul -- After more than two years of often spectacular public hearings, Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission closed its hearings on May 28. It will present its report and recommendations in July. But a lesser ...

[The Point] Bakary Badjie, board chair Education For All Campaign Network - The Gambia (EFANet) has called on Gambia government and Local Government Authorities (LGAs) to demand action in line with the One Billion Voices campaign, among other things ...

[The Point] Voter registration is an important exercise in any country's electrical calendar. And having a vote is one important step towards exercising one's constitutional rights in an election.

[The Point] The Department of Fisheries recently announced that stakeholder agents and vessel owners who infringe vessels will face the full force of the law.

[The Point] Alagie Modi Trawally for the slave class of Garawol has sued the Governor of the Upper River Region, Chief Bacho Ceesay of Kantora and Alkalo Tachine Ceesay seeking several declarations from the High Court concerning their alleged human r...

[The Point] As the general voters' registration exercise begins on Saturday 29 May 2021 ahead of the much anticipated presidential election on 4 December, 2021, the country's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has declared that voters' cards issu...

[The Point] A staggering number of young Gambians have lost their lives trying to escape to Europe. United Nations Environment is implementing the largest natural resource development project in the history of the country to make their lives better b...

[The Point] The first batch of National Team players and officials have safely arrived in Antalya, Turkish tourist resort on Monday 31st May 2021 where The Gambia Scorpions will embark on a two-week training camp with three friendly international mat...

[The Point] Brazzaville -- Africa needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second doses to all who received a first dose within the 8 -12week interval between doses recommended by the World Health...

[The Point] Deputy permanent secretary at the Ministry of Higher Education Research Science and Technology (MoHERST) has reaffirmed government's commitment to encourage and promote private sector participation in the country's education sector.

[The Point] The Gambia Football Federation (GFF) First Division League week-17 fixtures saw dramatic encounters played over the weekend, starting on Thursday.

[The Point] Samger and Falcons last Thursday squandered two significant points in the on-going 2020-2021 Gambia Football Federation (GFF) Division Two League following their goalless draw with Young Africans and Red Hawks.

[The Point] After the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of The Central Bank met to review the economic and financial development in the first quarter of 2021, the committee observed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) growth, Bank's Composite Index o...

[The Point] Operatives of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency The Gambia (DLEAG) have arrested four suspects with almost half a tonne of suspected cannabis. The suspects were arrested at different places within the country.

[The Point] The executive director of Beakanyang has spoken about plans to make their 'Badinbung' Initiative, which is a Mandinka parlance for restoring conflicts in a family house a permanent local structure in the Upper River Region.

[The Point] Ousman Sowe, the director general of the country's State Intelligence Service (SIS) recently delivered a lecture for visiting Nigerian Military Personnel on Covid-19 and its implications.

[The Point] The chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Alieu Momar Njai says no one can either derail the commission or influence them to do otherwise ahead of the December polls.

[The Point] The Ambassador and Permanent Representative of The Republic of The Gambia to the United Nations, H.E Lang Yabou, has called on the international community to reach a permanent truce and end the ongoing occupation by addressing the root ca...

[Foroyaa] NationalJune 1, 2021

[Foroyaa] The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has on Friday 28th May 2021 concluded its public hearings.

[Foroyaa] The governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Buah Saidy, has revealed that most of the Gambia's debts are legacy loans.

[Foroyaa] The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has on Saturday the 29th May 2021 commenced general registration of voters all over the Gambia and the commission is expecting to register one million voters.

[Foroyaa] Mr. Musa Camara, the Director of Diaspora at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, has said that over 40 thousand Gambians have arrived in Europe by irregular migration from 2014 to date.

[Foroyaa] Health Officers have over the weekend said twenty-eight thousand, five hundred and ninety people have received the COVID-19 vaccines as of the 23rd of May 2021.

[The Point] A group of school boys returned from playing in Thies, Senegal and decided to come together and form what was then Benson and Hedges and later Real De Banjul.

[The Point] Since the confirmation of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China, many people who contracted the virus have been discriminated either by family members, friends or even co-workers.

[The Point] From time immemorial, local griots also known in Mandinka parlance as 'Jali' have not only served as praise singers, but custodians of oral history. They belong to an important hierarchy in Mandinka social groupings just like smiths, meta...

[The Point] Mam Sait Njie, on Wednesday appeared before the TRRC and described former President Yahya Jammeh as a monster and fraudster after his intersection with Jammeh in connection with a land transaction he was involved in with the Social Securi...

[The Point] The outbreak of the coronavirus disrupted the normal routines of educational establishments across the globe.