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Current Feed ContentBattle lines drawn for Africa U-17 qualifiersThe seven places for the 8th Africa U-17 Championships to be hosted in Algeria next year will be decided this weekend after the second leg matches of the final round. The centre of attraction will be in Banjul, where the Baby Scorpions of Gambia play host to Ghana’s Black Starlets. The Scorpions must overturn a 1-3 deficit from the first leg to reach their second finals in four years, which will also see them avenge the painful loss suffered by their seniors, Darling Scorpions, to their...NAYCONF Flag Handed Over To BanjulThe Secretary of State for Youth and Sports, Sheriff Gomez,yesterday officially handed over the flag of the National Youth Conference andFestival (NAYCONF) to the Mayor of Banjul, Samba Faal, in Banjul.This year’s event will be hosted in Farafenni in midDecember. Speaking at the handing over ceremony in Banjul CityCouncil, Secretary of State Gomez, said the flag will go across the country andit will be received by the mayors and governors before it reaches its finaldestination. He stated that...Africa stadia get Fifa all-clearAll the African stadiums under threat in recent months of being barred from hosting World Cup qualifying matches have been passed by Fifa. Stadiums in Gambia, Congo, DR Congo, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and Zambia will be allowed to host matches in the next few weeks after having upgrades or starting improvements demanded by Fifa. But football's ruling body has warned it might clamp down again if the improvements ordered are not in place by the start of the second phase of group...Gambia may face Algeria againThey have been pitted in the same group for South Africa 2010 World Cup qualifiers, yet The Gambia can again face their north African foes, Algeria, in another qualifying competition. This time the qualifying round for the African Youth Championship finals to be hosted Rwanda in 2009. The qualififying round fixtures released by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) last night will see The Gambia lock horns with the winner in the Algeria - Mauritania preliminary tie. Already a big gun...Ambassador Wells welcomedThe newly-appointed US ambassador to Banjul, on Thursday hosted a colourful reception at his official residence in Fajara, Bakau. Ambassador Barry Wells hosted distinguished government officials, including the speaker of the National Assembly, Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, the secretary of state for Youth and Sports, Alhaji Mass Axie Gye, the mayor of Banjul, Hon Samba Faal, the chief of Defence Staff, Brigadier General Lang Tombong Tamba and other service chiefs, diplomats, business executives...Taiwanese mobile medics leave BanjulAn 11-member mobile medical team from Taiwan on Sunday left Banjul for Taipei, after a two-week working visit to The Gambia. The team, which arrived in Banjul on December 9, were deployed at the Sulayman Junkung Hospital in Bwiam, Western Region, and AFPRC Hospital in Farafenni, North Bank Region Region, where they provided free-medical services to the rural community. They also reportedly treated patients at Sapu in Central River Region. During the course of their operations, the team was...Brig. Gen fetes kidsBrigadier General Lang Tombong Tamba, chief of defence staff of the Gambia Armed Forces, has hosted more than a dozen children who took in a radio programme during the celebration of the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting. The kids, who are now in an organised group, took charge of studio operations at the KWT Radio during the commemoration and were opportuned to have had an encounter with Brig. Gen Tamba, who took the children through his life-experience, and spent his day with his... |
