The Republics of The Gambia and Indonesia have gone a notch higher in cementing cooperation between the two countries. The Foreign Ministries of both nations have signed a cooperation pact, covering strategic areas of development, emphasizing the need to reconvene a Second Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) in 2026 in Banjul. This is aimed…
Member of former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh’s hit-squad, Junglers, Sanna Manjang, was handed over to Gambian authorities by Senegal on Tuesday, 2 December 2025. Under heavy armed security on Tuesday morning, the who has been implicated in heinous human rights violations, including torture, enforced disappearance, and killings, was arrested on Saturday, November 29, 2025 after…
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: BBC The Government of the Gambia has on Sunday , November 23, 2025, issued a release on the arrival in the Gambia of Mr. Issa Tchiroma Bakary, a Cameroonian opposition leader who contested in a recently concluded election against Paul Barthélemy Biya, 92, the second-longest-ruling president in Africa after Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo…
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…
Government officials and disability-rights advocates have renewed calls for strict enforcement of The Gambia’s Persons with Disabilities Act, 2021, as nationwide sensitisation sessions begin across the regions. The engagements led by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare and the National Advisory Council for Persons with Disabilities (NACPWD) kicked off on November 13, 2025…
President Adama Barrow has inaugurated the 84.5-kilometer Nuimi-Hakalang road, connecting settlements in Lower and Upper Nuimi and Jokadou districts in the North Bank Region. This road project is expected to significantly enhance connectivity and economic activity across the region. The road’s completion ends “decades of brutal hardship” for residents, who previously took treacherous journeys on…
An alliance of eminent civil society organisations has raised critical concerns over the pace and fate of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) in The Gambia by submitting a position paper to the Ministry of Interior through the Interior Minister, Abdoulie Sanyang, Esq. The coalition include Activista The Gambia, Beakanyang, Center for Budget and Macroeconomic Transparency…
“He who votes, hopes.” But what happens when that hope becomes hollow—when the rituals of democracy—elections, constitutions, speeches—fail to transform the daily lives of ordinary people? Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama put it bluntly: “Nobody cares about democracy; what the people want is good governance—a government that offers opportunities and prosperity to the people.” In…
As the World Bank and the Gambia government target expanding the Nafa cash transfer program to another 15000 household beneficiaries across The Gambia, the National Nutrition Agency (NaNA) has commenced a massive enrollment program for new selected beneficiaries. The project aims to alleviate poverty by supporting vulnerable and extremely poor households in various districts. The…
