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Gambia U-17 In Do Or Die Game Tomorrow

Our Darling U-17 scorpions are entangled in a do or diematch on Saturday 22ndat the Independencestadium with Ghana U-17 in the second leg of the CAF U-17 Youths ChampionshipQualifiers. The baby Scorpions lost to Ghana U-17 by 3-1 in the firstleg a fortnight ago. Playing at their home ground our boys need to score twogoals to advance to the tournament proper in Algiersin 2009. Speaking to Pointsports,the Assistant Coach of the U-17, Mr. Lamin Sambou, said, “we need support fromthe Gambians on...

Five Die in Kombo Coastal Road Accident

At least five people have been confirmed dead and several others wounded in a fatal car accident when a military truck collided with a 32-passenger ‘Gele Gele’ along the Kombo Coastal road yesterday. The victims, according to reports gathered, included one soldier Private Abba Sanyang and four civilians whose names could not be ascertained at the time of going to press. The incident is said to have happened around 10’o clock in the morning when the Gele Gele with registration number BJL 3809 A...

Two Gambians die in Senegal seas

According to the French News Agency (AFP), the Senegalese navy rescued two Gambians and one Senegalese and recovered two bodies after a trawler sank off Dakar. Nine other people are reported missing. The Greek-registered trawler capsized Wednesday in the Popenguine area, 70 kilometres (45 miles) east of the Senegalese capital, Colonel Ousmane Sarr told AFP. The cause of the incident still remains unknown. He said 14 people were aboard the boat, comprising eight Senegalese, four Gambians, a...

Four Die, Two Injured in Car Accident

A fatal car accident claimed four lives last Thursday evening. Lamin Jadama, Lang Jadama, Njanko Darboe and Sarjo Camara lost their lives when their vehicle collided with another vehicle on the Coastal Road, around Yaranbamba, in Yundum. Sanna Jallow and one Musa were seriously injured in the unfortunate accident. Eyewitness accounts have it that the fatal collision occurred when both vehicles tried to avoid a pothole in the road, consequently leading to the instant death of all four in one of...

S.M. Dibba Passes Away

News of thedeath of veteran politician, Sheriff Mustapha Dibba, was yesterday broken tothe public.Born on10th January 1937 at Salikene in Central Baddibu, North Bank Region, Mr Dibbaentered primary school in 1946, proceeding to High School in Armitage in thethen George Town and BoysHigh School in Banjul between 1955 and 1957. From 1958to 1959, Mr. Dibba worked for United African Company (UAC), from which heresigned and entered politics in 1960. He was elected as Member of Parliamentfor Central...

Ten Million Children Die annually before 5th birthday - UNICEF Rep

The UNICEFCountry Representative, Ms. Min-Whee Kang, has revealed that every year nearlyten million children die in the world due to preventable diseases. Most ofthese children are in sub-Saharan Africa. Sheadded that one in every six children dies before their fifth birthday.Sub-Saharan Africa still remains the mostdifficult place for a child to survive. UNICEFcountry chief made these remarks last Thursday at Sheraton Hotel in Brufut atthe launch of the UNICEF’s State of the World Children...

NIGER: Why are so many mothers dying?

Every two hours in Niger a woman will die during her pregnancy or while delivering a baby - a symptom of under-resourced health services, neglected transport and education infrastructure, and a lack of awareness among women of their rights, health officials and experts say. Niger’s 13.5 million people (Nigeriens), spread across a barren territory roughly the size of Western Europe, have missed out on much of the development that has happened in other countries on the African continent. There...

GUINEA: Cholera cases still rising

At least 800 more people have been infected with cholera over the last week, bringing the total number of reported cases to 2,500 since January out of which 90 people have died, according to the Guinean Ministry of Health. “The number of people infected by the disease in Conakry has considerably increased since July,” said Sergio Martin Esteso, programme head for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Guinea, in a statement. “Of the 1,260 patients treated in the three centres where MSF works, more...