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Members of the National Assembly on Tuesday 23rd June passed the Hoarding Prohibition Bill, 2009. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetA" ); 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]

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]

Despite government efforts to reduce the number of children living and working in Gambia's streets, the phenomenon continues, with hundreds of children vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse, child rights activists say. Street children are most prevalent in the ... [Gambia News]

The government of the Gambia, through the Department of Immigration, has announced that preparations are on to introducte biometrics in the country, a press release from the department, made available to PANA, stated here Wednesday. A biometrics system is a pattern recognition ... [Gambia News]

The 45th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) ended in Banjul on Wednesday with a call for the improvement of the human rights record in the continent. Gambia’s Attorney General ... [Gambia News]

Leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to the Gambia, Mr. Robert Powell, has said that although “The economy of The Gambia grew by about 6% in 2008, economic growth is expected to be weaker in 2009 in the face of a ... [Gambia News]

The Speaker of the Gambian Parliament, Fatoumatta Jahump a Ceesay, said on Wednesday that the Gambia and Morocco have agreed to curtail the menace of the illegal migration of youths to Europe through North Africa. According to a press release issued in ... [Gambia News]

A six-member delegation, comprising of officials of the Gambian Tourism Authority (GTA), Gambia Hotels Association (GHA) and other stakeholders, arrived in Nigeria yesterday with a mission to sell The Gambia as the prefered leisure destination of choice to the Nigerian travelling public. The one week ... [Gambia News]

Police on Monday arrested beggars in the streets of the capital, Banjul, Ndella Mboob, a disabled street beggar, confirmed to PANA, but the beggars have described it as “constant harassment and discrimination” against them. According to Mboob, she and other beggars were ... [Gambia News]

The level of poverty in the Gambia, based on per capita consumption, the head counts index (the percentage of poor people), accounts for 58 per cent, according to the 2003 Household Poverty Survey. Reducing this rising poverty level continues to be ... [Gambia News]