505 17The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh Friday decorated eight officers of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) who were earlier promoted to various ranks in the army.The promoted officers are Sering Modou Njie, promot...

505 14 The former Inspector General of police, Ensa Badjie, Lt Colonel Mam Matarr Secka and Major Kuluteh Manneh who are facing 30 criminal charges, Tuesday April 27th 2010 appeared before Justice Amadi of the High court in Banjul to take their pleas....

50129The 36 states governors in Nigeria have pledge to support the administration of the country’s new President Goodluck Jonathan to sustain the legacy left behind by the late President Umar Yar’adua.Jonathan who was busy receiving Very Important ...

50610 NasserThere were snap calls for Africa’s youth to embrace hope ahead of doubt, and have the self-belief that only they can shape their destiny, as the World Economic Forum on Africa came to an end in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.The calls were prov...

50092 AfranThe 8th conference of Palestinian nationals in Europe was held in Berlin, Germany.The conference with the motto of "Our return and the liberation of our prisoners is definite" focused on the difficulties that Palestinians refugees were facin...

50608 NasserOn her way to Dar es Salaam early this week for the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa, the World Bank Vice President for Africa, Ms Obiageli Ezekwesili, paid a courtesy visit to Uganda. She spoke to FREDRICK MASIGA about specific issues o...

50128The former Governor of the old Kaduna State, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, has warned President Goodluck Jonathan, not to aspire to contest the presidential election in 2011.Kaita who spoke in Katsina after commiserating with the family of the late presiden...

50091 AfranVienna, May 6, IRNA – IAEA chief Yukiya Amano is calling on all the agency’s member states for their viewpoints on how to persuade the Zionist regime to sign up to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.In a letter, dated April 7 and circulated...

50127The remains of late Nigeria’s President Umaru Musa Yar’adua is expected to reach his home town, Katsina, Katsina State in the North-Western part of the country for final burial at 2pm.Senior government officials, former leaders, traditional ru...

50126Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’adua is dead. He passed away on Wednesday night in the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja.His remains will be flown to his hometown, Katsina, Katsina State in the North-Western part of Nigeria early this mornin...

50090 AfranNigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua died Wednesday night.Early Thursday, the president's office confirmed media reports that the president, who had been sick and virtually incommunicado for several months, had died late the previous night."Pres...

50089 AfranTehran, May 4, IRNA – Proposals made by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations in New York set precedent for the international community's resolve to uphold Non-Proliferation Treaty and get rid ...

50088 AfranAhlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Written by Tunisian philosopher Abu Ya’rab Al-Marzuki, it is considered to be an important work in the filed of Quran interpretation.Mr. Al-Marzuki’s comments on the meanings of the verses of the Qura...

50521The Vice President and Minister of Women's Affairs, Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy, has said that Africa's problems require an African solution to solve them, using our heritage as a people of common origins. Vice President Njie-Saidy, who was speaking at ...

50520Alhagie Alasan David Cham, the chief of Nianija district in the Central River Region has raised concerns over what he described as the mismanagement of the Njau and Niamina Maro bird hunting camps in his district.According to Chief David Cham, the...

50519Reliable information stated that the following have been nominated in the diplomatic service: Mrs. Marie Saine-Firdaus, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has been nominated as The Gambia's ambassador to Cuba, replacing Mr. Pierre Ta...

50518Gambia Tuesday, May 04, 2010 Saint Joseph's Family Farms in Bwiam in collaboration with Concern Universal The Gambia recently conducted HIV/AIDS and gender training programmes for communities in the Fonis, Western Region. According to the trainin...

50517The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh Friday decorated eight officers of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) who were earlier promoted to various ranks in the army.The promoted officers are Sering Modou Njie, promote...

50607Kampala.Visiting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said it is treason and betrayal of mankind to deny nations who need access to nuclear energy that right.“We think it is the right of all nations to use nuclear en...

50606 KampalaThe Ugandan 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, Mr. Eriya Kategaya, has today announced that the volume of inter East African Community trade has more than doubles in the region since 2004.Kategaya revealed tha...