Jul 02,2009 by
 The Gambia Navy on Friday, 26th June, 2009, received four patrol
boats from the visiting Taiwanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrew Shia, at
a ceremony held at that Naval headquarters in Banjul.
Speaking at the official handing over ceremony, the Chief of Naval
Staff, Commander ... [Gambia News]
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Jul 02,2009 by
 The Gambia has dropped drastically in the latest FIFA rankings
released on Wednesday, a month after making its highest mark on both
global and continental level.
The Gambia was
ranked 65th and 12th in the World and African standings respectively in
May ... [Gambia News]
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Jul 01,2009 by
 The ECOWAS Community Court hearing the case of torture brought by
Musa Saidykhan, a Gambian journalist against the operatives of The
Gambia’s ’notorious’ National Intelligence Agency (NIA), on June 30,
2009 dismissed the preliminary objections raised by the government of
The Gambia, the defendant ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 28,2009 by
 Members of the National Assembly on Tuesday 23rd June passed the Hoarding Prohibition Bill, 2009.
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The Attorney General, who introduced the Bill, said the Bill does
not only prohibit and penalize persons engaged in hoarding and their
accomplices, but ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 27,2009 by
 The UK’s leading tour operator in The Gambia, with twenty two years’ experience, has released its November 2009" October 2010 brochure to UK holidaymakers this week. The brochure has also been issued to top UK travel agencies and travel media. ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 27,2009 by
 Augustine Kanjia, a photo journalist with the Gambian private daily The Point, has been granted bail, following his arrest Monday at the sedition hearing of seven journalists who were arrested and detained last week, PANA reported Thursday. ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 27,2009 by
 Lamin Waa Juwara, leader of the opposition National Democratic Action Movement party (NDAM), has been appointed Governor of Lower River Region (LRR), formerly Lower River Division, by President Yahya Jammeh, PANA reported Thursday. Before ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 27,2009 by
 The country representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) in The Gambia, Dr. Babagana Ahmadu, has commended Gambian women
for their disposition to the rural TeleFoods projects.
Ahmadu, who was addressing Gambians women at the end of the
two-week TeleFoods projects ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 21,2009 by
 Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh left Banjul Sunday afternoon on his way
to attend the ECOWAS summit scheduled to be held in Abuja on Monday.
Acording
to official sources, the ECOWAS smmit will be preceded by a summit of
heads of state ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 21,2009 by
 President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia has appointed a new Finance and
Economic Affairs minister, about a week after the sacking of the
incumbent Musa Balla Gaye, APA learns here Saturday.
The new minister is Abdou Kolley, who, until his ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 21,2009 by
 The ECOWAS Small Arms Programme (ECOSAP) cluster meetings on the
effective control of small arms and light weapons will be held in
Banjul, The Gambia, 23-24 June and in Bamako, Mali, 29-30 June, the
programme said in statement obtained by PANA here Friday. ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 21,2009 by
 Gambia National Intelligence Agency on Friday released on bail the
leader of the opposition National Alliance for Democracy and
Development (NADD), Halifa Sallah and The Point newspaper’s news editor
Abba Gibba on bail today Friday.
According to sources the two men were ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 19,2009 by
 Gambian opposition leader and journalist Halifa Sallah has been
arrested, making him the ninth journalist taken into custody in a
crackdown on Gambia's media, sources said Friday.
Sallah, a
leading member of the opposition National Alliance for Democracy and
Development and on the editorial board ... [Gambia News]
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Jun 18,2009 by
 The news editor of The Point newspaper, Abba Gibba, was arrested
Thursday in his office by officers of the Gambian National Intelligence
Agency, staff members of the paper confirmed to PANA.
According to their colleagues, the officers walked into the office
and ... [Gambia News]
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