Banjul, The Gambia — The Executive Director of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS), Mrs. Hannah Forster, was on Friday, 28th November 2025, honoured as the Women’s Rights Advocate of the Year at the 5th Edition of the Gambia Women Chamber of Commerce (GWCC) Women in Business Forum and Awards. The…
Photo Credit: Gambia Journal The Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice welcomes and commends the Government of The Gambia for the arrest of Junglers Sanna Manjang and Nuha Badjie. We express our profound relief that, at long last meaningful steps are being taken to bring these notorious perpetrators of serious human rights violations…
Photo Credit: Facebook Alhaji M.C. Cham Sr, 87, who was the only surviving delegate to the famous and decisive 1964 The Gambia Constitutional Talks at Marlborough House, London, has died at his Banjul residence on Friday, November 27, 2025. His demise was announced shortly after Friday prayers, following a brief illness, and he was finally…
Photo Credit: Reed Brody Hungarian-American international human rights lawyer and prosecutor, Reed Brody, has said that the arrest of Sanna Manjang is a pivotal advance for accountability following the arrest of the most talked about Jungler in Casamance, Southern Senegal. “Former Junglers have repeatedly identified him as a central actor in some of the Jammeh…
A notorious and feared member of former President Yahya Jammeh’s hit squad known as the Junglers has been reportedly arrested in Casamance, Southern Senegal, by a joint security operation of Gambia and Senegal on Saturday, November 29, 2025. Media reports indicated that the Spokesperson of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), Malick Sanyang, confirmed Manjang’s arrest,…
TAKE-M, an academic pacesetting organisation that promotes education in The Gambia, has continued its unique efforts at building and developing the talents and intelligence quotients of Gambian students with strategic subjects or disciplines in learning. After its recent impressive brain-racking Building-Word Competition for students from various basic and secondary schools in West Coast Region, TAKE-M…
Grieved by the untimely demise of sports journalist and news presenter, Pa Barrow, 39, the Gambia media fraternity has mourned the award-winning journalist who died at his residence in Fajikunda, Kanifing Municipality, in the early hours of Saturday, November 22, 2025. He was laid to rest in his home village of Naini Sukuta on Saturday,…
The United Nations resident coordinator for Gambia has underscored that enough is not being done and that institutions and stakeholders are not moving fast enough to address children’s needs and other threats. Mr. Karl Frédéric Paul lamented that, with only five years remaining to achieve the SDGs, the gap between promise and reality remains far…
Picture Credit: UNICEF The Gambia The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) The Gambia has Monday, November 18, 2025 celebrated 60 years in The Gambia as it continuously endeavour to champion children’s issues in the country. In an event held at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre in Bijilo, the UN agency brought together…
Picture Credit: UNICEF The Gambia Mohammed B.S. Jallow, the Vice President of the Republic of The Gambia, has hailed the efforts of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) The Gambia, especially their intervention in the area of health and education. VP Jallow extended gratitude to UNICEF for the critical support, saying The Gambia has made…
