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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]

The United States embassy in Banjul has expressed concern about the ongoing threats to press freedom in The Gambia. In a press release issued here on Tuesday, the embassy ... [Gambia News]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]