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West Africa Sees Improvement in Aviation Safety, Records 60% Compliance, Keyamo Hails Group
This Day
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July 3, 2025
Kasim Sumaina in Abuja The Banjul Accord Group Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Organisation (BAGASOO) yesterday reported a significant improvement in aviation safety in West Africa, with a 60 percent compliance record. The organisation’s...
West Coast Regional Football Academies Honour Youth Champions
The Voice Gambia
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July 9, 2025
By: Kemo Kanyi The West Coast Regional Football Academies Association on Saturday, 5th July 2025, honoured the champions of its different youth categories in a colourful ceremony held at the National Technical Training Centre in Yundum. Kids With...
Alleged people smuggling gang member ‘made millions while on Universal Credit’
Southern Daily Echo
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The group is believed to have used forged passports and visas of people with legitimate status in the UK to aid the arrival and subsequent employment in black market businesses of more than 500 Gambian citizens. Based between West Yorkshire and...
Aviation stakeholders push for harmonised safety standards in BAG States
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 2, 2025
The Banjul Accord Group Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Organisation Safety (BAGASOO) Conference kicked off yesterday in Abuja with a call to harmonise safety regulations among member countries in the Banjul Accord Group. The member...
EFSCRJ Highlights Economic Cost of Petroleum Scandal
The Voice Gambia
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July 1, 2025
By Fatou Krubally The Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice (EFSCRJ) has issued a strong warning about the economic and social consequences of the recently uncovered Russian petroleum scandal in The Gambia. The center’s analysis of...
Three Justice Ministry Staffers Granted Bail Amounting to D16m
The Voice Gambia
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July 1, 2025
By: Nicholas Bass The Banjul High Court Monday granted a sum of D16 million bail bond to three staff members of Justice Ministry. Justice Ebrima Jaiteh, the presiding judge granted the bail to the three staffers of Intellectual Property Registrar...
High Commissioner FJC urges youth to revolutionise African tourism
The Point
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Representing the “Smiling Coast of Africa,” Jahumpa-Ceesay conveyed warm greetings from the government and people of The Gambia and commended organisers including Africa Tourism Partners, UN Tourism, AfCFTA, South African Tourism, and the Joburg...
Farmers Union Welcomes Reduced Fertilizer Price
Foroyaa Newspaper
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July 1, 2025
By Lamin Fatty The Gambia Farmers Union has welcomed the government’s announcement of a new fertilizer price for the 2025 farming season, describing it as a positive step for the country’s agricultural sector. Modou Njie, Secretary General of the...
New Environment Bill Gets To Committee Stage in Parliament
The Voice Gambia
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July 1, 2025
By: Fatou Krubally National Assembly Members Monday advanced the National Environment Management Bill 2025 to the committee stage for detailed examination after its second reading in Banjul. The bill, tabled by the Minister for Environment,...
ECOWAS: As Tinubu’s two years of robust leadership comes to an end, By Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe
Premium Times
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June 23, 2025
President Tinubu handing over the chairmanship of ECOWAS to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone The exit of President Tinubu as ECOWAS chairman will be profoundly felt. His contribution to making ECOWAS a stable, peaceful and united...
Gina Bass Elected Chair of GNOC Athletes’ Commission – GNOC
The Voice Gambia
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July 1, 2025
By: Kemo Kanyi The Gambia’s most decorated Olympian, Gina Mariama Bass, has been unanimously elected as the Chair of the Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) Athletes’ Commission (AC) for the 2025–2028 quadrennial. Bass, a celebrated national...
Two Adolescents Darra Students Died in Tragic Fire Outbreak
Foroyaa Newspaper
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July 9, 2025
By Nelson Manneh Two adolescent boys tragically lost their lives in a fire outbreak at a Daara (Quranic boarding school) in Sinchu Alagie on Wednesday, July 6, 2025. The victims—12-year-old Abubacarr Mbacke and 11-year-old Muhammed Njie—succumbed...
Kenya Improves in Latest FIFA Ranking
Kenyans.co.ke
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July 10, 2025
Kenya has recorded a notable improvement in the latest FIFA rankings, a positive shift for the national team under new manager Benni McCarthy. According to the latest rankings, the Harambee Stars climbed to position 109, up from the previous 111 -...
Georgia Africa Legislative Caucus says proposed travel ban will hurt the U.S.
Georgia Public Broadcasting
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On Wednesday in Atlanta, members of the Georgia Africa Legislative Caucus gathered at the state capitol to ask Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reconsider a potential travel ban for some African countries. In June, President Donald Trump’s...
UN votes to renew LGBTQ+ expert’s mandate just after the US withdrew from Human Rights Council
LGBTQ Nation - California
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July 8, 2025
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted yesterday to extend the term of its current expert on LGBTQ+ rights by three years. The LGBTQ+ rights expert, South African author and scholar Graeme Reid, investigates human rights abuses against LGBTQ+ people...
Forget the Guidebook
Fort Myers Florida Weekly
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July 9, 2025
Real vacationers take the scenic route and the wild path less explored It’s possible to plan a nice vacation to Paris, go there, and follow an itinerary precisely. To the Louvre. To the Eiffel Tower. Then you can come home and read the words of...
Testimonies of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the alleged sale of 36,935.614 metric tonnes of Russian petroleum saga
The Standard Gambia
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July 1, 2025
- Advertisement - Witness Testimony Gambia Revenue Authority The Committee commenced its engagement with the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) by seeking clarification on the role of the Authority’s officials stationed at the Gam Petroleum Depot. In...
Court grants Pablo 25% access to seized funds in money laundering case
The Point
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An excerpt of Justice Jaiteh’s ruling reads: “Having carefully considered the submissions of both Counsels, the affidavits in support and opposition, and the documentary exhibits placed before me, the singular issue that calls for determination is...
Two Gov’t Officers Deny Calling Alleged PIU Shooter “Casamance Rebel”
The Voice Gambia
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July 2, 2025
By: Nicholas Bass The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Momodou Sowe and National Security Adviser, Abubakarr Suleiman Jeng on Tuesday both denied calling Ousainou Bojang a “rebel from Casamance.” They made the denial while appearing before the...
Nostalgic verses echo at Sharjah House of Poetry
Sharjah24
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International poets in attendance The evening featured poets Daoud Al-Tijani from Mauritania, Almamy Nimaga from Gambia, and Abdul Razzaq Al-Rubaie from the Sultanate of Oman. A large audience of critics, poets, and poetry enthusiasts filled the...