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...

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....

505 31The Ministry of Agriculture is spearheading the Gambia All Village Savings and Credit Associations (VISACA) Congress at the Sheraton Hotel and Spa in Brufut. The two-day forum brings together stakeholders in the micro-finance institutions across ...

505 38Hon. Ousman Sonko, The Gambia’s minister for the Interior and NGO Affairs has expressed the desire of The Gambia government for the effective control of small arms and light weapons in the West African sub region. The minister said this at a on...

501 51Major concessionaires in Nigeria indebted the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria to the tune of N10 billion, the Senate Committee on Aviation has revealed.The revelation came yesterday during a budget defense session attended by the management ...

50621Over the last four years, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has highlighted employment creation as one of its budget priorities. But lack of a cohesive plan means most of the plans are yet to be realised, writes Kasozi Nasser: -In ...

50210APA-Nouakchott (Mauritanie) Youssef Al Qardaoui, célèbre prêcheur et président de l’Union mondiale des ulémas musulmans, est arrivé mardi soir à Nouakchott pour sa première visite dans le pays.Cette visite qui dure trois jours sera meubl...

50237Une jeune femme de 20 ans, violement battue et brulée par des présumes proches de son mari, non loin d’Aioun, a été admise hier, aux urgences de l’hôpital régional de cette ville dans le Hodh El Gharbi.Selon alakhbar, secourue par certai...

50284Près de 2000 candidats se sont présentés, aujourd’hui, à Zouérate et à Nouadhibou, pour participer à un concours de sélection, organisé par la Snim en vue de recruter une centaine d’employés au profit de la société minière.Les can...

50099 AfranIslamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a statement Tuesday in condemnation of the Monday bloody Israeli attack against Fleet of Freedom humanitarian aid ships, saying that the atrocity was an aggression against world ...

505 52 Pirang Health Post boostedThe Pirang Health Post through Sulayman Sambou, a native of Gunjur yesterday received an ambulance from Dresden-Banjul Organisation, at a handing-over ceremony held at the health post. The ambulance would facilitate eas...

500123 AfranSeveral thousand Iranians have signed up to go to Gaza on a humanitarian rescue and siege-bust mission, Deputy Chief of Iran-based Society in Defense of Palestinian Nation (SDPN) told a press conference Monday.Mohammad-Ali Nurani told a pre...

505041The International Monetary Fund has asked Uganda to exercise fiscal discipline in managing its 2010/2011 budget allocations. This, the IMF says will minimise the country’s exposure to the growing debt crisis in the European Union, Uganda’s ke...

506055Today marks a new era with the launch of the East African Common Market Protocol- a single economic bloc within which factors of production, goods and services will move unhampered. The five partner states including: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwan...

500156 AfranTehran, July 24, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad here Friday unveiled truth about new US-Zionist scenario against Iran, expressing sorrow that Russia, too, is now harmonizing with it.According to IRNA presidential affairs reporter...

5060680All was going well just before the flamboyant Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gadaffi, reached the security checkpoint at the venue of the ongoing 15th Ordinary Session of the African Union heads of state summit in Munyonyo on Sunday.Riding in a fou...

50692Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa, a lawyer, former President and Attorney General in the post independent government, died yesterday in Kampala, Fred Guweddeko writes about his life;The late Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa was President of Uganda from July 1979 ...

Pride of Africa £10,600 per personThere are certainly choices you can make when you’re deciding on a way to get from Point A to Point B, or when you are planning a holiday away from the rat race of everyday life. Train travel is a popular means of...