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Former Gambian President Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara on Tue sday reiterated that malaria was a deadly disease in Africa and urged journalist s to educate the public on the dangers of a malaria attack. He said journalists had a big role ... [Gambia News]

“The Gambia has reached the completion point for the debt relief initiative,” declared Messrs Madini M. Tall and Mr. Tsidi Tsikata, World Bank Country Director for The Gambia and IMF Mission Chief For The Gambia respectively. The duo made this ... [Gambia News]

Moustapha Niasse, the AFP party presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential polls, has said that when elected into office he would engage the Gambian authorities in dialogue with a view to ensuring that Senegalese plying the Gambian ferries are ... [Gambia News]

The Gambia government has at first created avenues for prostitutes to ply their trade in the country legally by asking them to register as well as go for regular health check-ups. A few years ago however, The Gambia decided to ... [Gambia News]

By Modou Sanyang One Simon Martin Luckay, a Briton believed to be an officer of the British Royal Marines, was yesterday arraigned before Principal Magistrate Moses Richards of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court, charged with idle and disorderly conduct, as ... [Gambia News]

A charter flight from the Gambian capital Banjul today made an emergency landing in Senegal after the crew discovered that the plane ran out of fuel. Captain John Lawrence of First Choice Airways had to pay for ... [Gambia News]

Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbackeh of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court on 28th February, 2007, in his judgement, ordered Palm Holdings Ltd to pay D962, 607.24 to Palm Beach Hotel, which had earlier on sued the latter for owing it the said sum ... [Gambia News]

Residents of Kanifing Estate continued to mourn their loved ones, as three of the 12 remaining hospitalised victims of a tragic gas explosion in Kanifing Estate, passed away on Sunday and Monday at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) in ... [Gambia News]

One Alhajie Abdoulie Chorr, a resident of Bakau South Atlantic, filed a motion before Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbakeh of the Kanifing Magistrates Court, alleging that his son, Amadou Chorr, has threatened to kill him. The plaintiff further claimed that his son’s ... [Gambia News]

According to a press release from the ECOWAS bureau in Banjul, Sir Dawda Jawara, former president of the republic of The Gambia, has been appointed as the Head of the ECOWAS Observer mission to Nigeria for the upcoming elections in ... [Gambia News]