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President Jammeh, a true legend

Operation no compromise Made the brain for hardwork.President Jammeh,A miraculous gift to GambiansYou’ve proven in every aspect For your progress is a talk onEvery lip, every state and nationOur smallest country fearsNothing because you made it so for no mortal you fear.You are the best,The superstar that Made the Gambian flag fly higherHail APRC and God bless President Jammeh For you made the smiling coast of Africa, The smiling coast of paradise.

AFGHANISTAN: Nazia, "I work as health worker despite threats to my life”

KANDAHAR Monday, December 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Armed attacks and threats against health workers are jeopardising progress made on reducing the infant mortality rate in Afghanistan (down from 257 per 1,000 live births in 2001 to 129 in 2008, according to the UN Children’s Fund). Nazia, a female health worker in Kandahar Province, told IRIN about the threats she has been receiving to quit her job. “I work in a mother and child health clinic in Kandahar city. Through my work I not only support my...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Shaky peace leading into elections

ABIDJAN Wednesday, October 01, 2008 (IRIN) - As presidential elections approach at year-end after repeated delays, analysts worry slow progress on meeting the demands of the Ouagadougou peace agreement, combined with what they see as continued hostility among some in power towards foreign-born Ivorians, threaten the elusive stability in the still-divided country. “Ouagadougou was a breakthrough because the protagonists of the crisis came together to agree on their own timetable and roadmap to...

ISRAEL-OPT: Quartet “failing” the Palestinians

JERUSALEM Thursday, September 25, 2008 (IRIN) - The international community has failed to fulfil any of the goals it set itself regarding the Middle East peace process and has therefore made little progress in improving the lives and humanitarian situation of Palestinians, aid agencies said in a report on 25 September. On some key issues, such as Israeli settlements in the West Bank, freedom of movement for Palestinians and improvement of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, the...

KAZAKHSTAN: Regional cooperation seen as key in fight against drugs

ALMATY Wednesday, June 27, 2007 (IRIN) - As Kazakhstan marked international anti-narcotics day on 26 June, health officials expressed cautious optimism that the fight against drugs is showing some progress. There has been a drop in the number of registered drug users, and plans for a regional body which will help combat the drug trade are moving ahead, say officials. “This problem is being dealt with more actively than it was three or four years ago,” Aleksandr Katkov, director of the...

INDONESIA: Mixed progress on MDGs

JAKARTA Wednesday, November 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Indonesia is on track to achieve the goal of halving the number of citizens living in abject poverty and hunger by 2015, a joint government-UN report, Let's Speak Out for MDGs, stated. But the report, detailing Indonesia's latest progress in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), revealed the country had made little progress in providing safe drinking water, reducing maternal mortality, improving child nutrition or tackling several...

CAMBODIA: Human trafficking crackdown also hits HIV prevention

PHNOM PENH Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (IRIN) - The Cambodian government's crackdown on human trafficking and sexual exploitation could reverse the progress made in curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS, as sex workers fleeing the police have been unable to access health services. Legislation against human trafficking, introduced in March 2008, also covers formal locations such as brothels, so police implementing the new laws have also targeted sex workers, who are now forced to ply their trade on the...

Over D58,000 missing at Western Union branch Suspect in police net

Reports reaching the Daily Observer have revealed that over D58,000 went missing at The Gambia Electrical Company’s (GEC) Western Union branch, located along the Kairaba Avenue. According to our sources , one Mr Kwamla Carr, a resident of Fajara, was arrested on Wednesday by police personnel from the Bundung Police Station in connection with the said theft case. Our sources further revealed that the stolen sum of money belongs to some people who were supposed to receive monies sent by their...

Gambians have chosen right!

Editor, The people’s choice for H.E Yahya Jammeh was providential.  Their steadfastness, loyalty, confidence and patriotism will not be ignored, for President Jammeh loves his people as much as they love him. His main concern is nothing but the amelioration of the conditions of their lives. Proof of this is in his speech on the last 22nd July anniversary celebrations, when he said with all sincerity and honesty – ‘"I will never, never allow any one to distress my people or make them unhappy."...

Robbery Trial in progress

A British national by the name Susan, residing at Sukuta, on 27 October 2008 gave her testimony at the Bundung Magistrate Court presided over by Magistrate Kumba Sillah Camara. Susan PW1 informed the court that on 25th May 2008 at Sukuta, she went out to turn on her generator and then the accused and his accomplice appeared to her. According to her, the accused pushed her against the wall and asked her how much money she had in her room. When she tried to answer him, the accused covered her...