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APRC candidate optimistic of landslide victory

In the countdown to the December 18th National Assembly by-election in Nianija constituency, the APRC sponsored candidate, Yaya Whan, has expressed optimism about his party’s chance to win a landslide victory. Barely three weeks before the much awaited by-election, the APRC hopeful believe that the long awaited opportunity to  demonstrate the unshakeable loyalty of the people of Nianija to the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party has come. Whan made these remarks...

4 new army barracks for Gambia soon- Major General Tamba

Major General Lang Tombong Tamba, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), has said that plans are underway to build four new military barracks in The Gambia. The new barracks, according to the CDS will be built in Njogon Village in the Lower Niumi District, North Bank Region (NBR), Lamin Koto in the Central River Region (CRR), Fatoto in the Upper River Region (URR) and Mansakonko in the Lower River Region (LRR). Major General Tamba disclosed this plan yesterday during...

Price stability top priority, says CBE governor

CAIRO: Price stability will be the Central Bank of Egypt’s (CBE) main focus in the coming period, said CBE Governor Farouk El-Okdah. "I am not saying that growth is not important. I said our overriding objective is price stability," Okdah told a news conference Wednesday, which some interpreted as an attempt to curb expectations of interest rate cuts. The CBE ended a nine-month cycle of interest rate rises on Nov. 6, saying it would leave rates on hold and signaling it could ease monetary...

Business & Finance: We were right to come to The Gambia - Oceanic Bank MD

Olumuyiwa Eleazar Ogunmilade, the managing director of the new entrant into The Gambia’s Banking Industry, Oceanic Bank (Gambia Limited), has stated that the bank made the right choice in coming to The Gambia. The 42-year old Nigerian Banker, who holds a bachelors degree in Political Science and a Masters in Finance was speaking to Business and Finance in his office in Kololi. “Before coming to The Gambia, we looked at many things. Yes, it is a small country but there were many things that...

The youth and crime

If there is anything that The Gambia can boast of, it is its culture of peace and stability; that invaluable commodity that is in short supply right across the continent. The fact of its existence in The Gambia defies the realities in the rest of Africa and beyond. But we owe a lot to our traditional social setting just as much as we do to our religious inclinations for this prevailing culture of peace and stability we enjoy. However, what prevails in other parts of the region suggests that...

DRC: Funds to boost stability in Ituri

The international community has released US$5.7 million as a first tranche of aid this year to stabilise the troubled district of Ituri in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ross Mountain, UN resident coordinator and special representative of the UN Secretary-General in the country, said. "We have given every possibility to militia members to lay down their weapons. But there are still some elements - few in number - who are preventing citizens in one part of the district...

BURKINA FASO: Food riots shut down main towns

Riots over the cost of living hit three major towns in Burkina Faso this week, a situation which has raised fears among some observers about the peaceful but impoverished country’s stability. “This reaction was expected,” Laurent Ouédraogo, secretary general of the Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs du Burkina (CNTB) told IRIN, stating that the riots happened after anger welled up because of constantly rising prices for basics like food, cloth and petrol. “Misery does not wait and you...

Paving the way for an up-market financial trade

The risk-based supervision exercise to be introduced in the course of the year by the Central Bank of The Gambia (CBG) is a step in the right direction, as it will focus on maintaining a risk-free financial transaction in the economy in the wake of the marked increase in the number of commercial banks operating in the country. The focus of this exercise also strikes on the ultimate goal of encouraging and maintaining a credible and dependable up-market trade of financial assets and instruments...

DRC: Cautious welcome for Kivu peace deal

A peace agreement signed between the government and the various armed groups active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including the faction led by dissident general Laurent Nkunda, marks an important step towards restoring peace and stability in the region, according to analysts. "I think this agreement will succeed because one person who could block it, President Joseph Kabila, has agreed to sponsor it and was present at the closing ceremony," Dieudonne Kalindye, professor of law...

Well done

My fellow Gambians, here we are witnessing a historic moment in the history of The Gambia and as such it would be a great honour as well to considered it as the Picture of the Year. We all witnesses to the image of His Excellence DR A.J.J Jammeh and Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara standing side by side to grace the judicial ceremony. That's a typical Gambia character, which our President is showing the whole nation. We have always respected our Elders and they would always be in our hearts. His...