Experts from within West Africa and outside are meeting in The Gambia to review a draft 8-year Plan of Action which set forth concrete measures to end statelessness in the sub-region by the year 2024. The Plan of Action is developed in line with the Abidjan Declaration adopted by the 15 ECOWAS me...

Written by Sam Phatey on January 17, 2017 Troops from West African nations will be escorting the Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow into the small nation to be sworn-in as its president. Incumbent President Yahya Jammeh was defeated in the polls but refusing to step down. His refusal to ced...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has a adopted strategies to eradicate statelessness in the sub-region by 2024. During a 3-day ministerial conference that began on Monday in Gambia’s capital Banjul, experts from the bloc’s 15 member states resolved to finalize a plan of acti...

A delegation of ECOWAS leaders is due in The Gambia today, in respect of the initial planned visit on Wednesday 11 January. The decision was taken at a one-day ECOWAS summit held recently in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The delegation includes Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, Liberia’s P...

Gambia's former President Yahya Jammeh has left the country in the wake of elections that ousted him after 22 years in power. He boarded a plane to Guinea and from there will travel on to exile in Equatorial Guinea, regional group Ecowas says. Mr Jammeh was defeated in December's election by A...

Plusieurs milliers de Gambiens ont franchi la frontière vers le Sénégal ces dix derniers jours pour échapper aux tensions croissantes liées aux résultats des élections présidentielles du mois dernier. Par: Hélène Caux | 13 janvier 2017 DAKAR, Sénégal – Plusieurs milliers de personnes, en m...

The Gambia Food and Nutrition Association (GAFNA) has recently organised a one day validation workshop for stakeholders on the Draft Child Protection Assessment Report of urban refugees, held in its conference room in Kanifing. GAFNA is a Non-Governmental Organisation that has been partnering wit...

Dakar, 18 jan (APS) – Un important mouvement de troupes de plusieurs pays africains en partance pour la Gambie a été observé ce mercredi au port de Ziguinchor, a confié à l’APS une source militaire, alors qu’une intervention militaire devient de plus en plus imminente. Les militaires pourraient ...

Adama Barrow Promises to Turn Page on Rights Abuses Jim Wormington Researcher “This is the day we’ve been waiting for,” Sanna told me as he and hundreds of Gambians gathered outside their country’s embassy in Dakar, Senegal to celebrate the inauguration today of President Adama Barrow. Barrow...

(JollofNews) – The Gambian Government and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) Friday signed a US$6.2 million (equivalent to D283, 604,855.60) project agreement designed to reduce the impacts of climate variability and change in the Gambia’s agriculture and livestock sec...