The Daily IIJ

One of the more fascinating accounts of Sir Dawda’s story is his reconciliation with president Yahya Jammeh and his return from exile. Here in his own words, the News and Report Weekly Magazine brings you a narration of how it happened, based on excerpts taken from Sir Dawda’s autobiography Kairaba. On Thursday 29 August 2001, [...]

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Sir Dawda Jawara, The Gambia first President, led The Gambia to independence on February 18, 1965 and held on as Prime Minister until 1970 when the country became a Republic. Sir Dawda Jawara gave an account post independence Gambia under his rule in an interview with Gambia News and Report Magazine at his residence on [...]

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Peace Ambassadors The Gambia recently gathered a good number of youths from all works of lives for recruitment camp at Sanyang Lower Basic School. The name of the recruitment camp is “The Art of Living in Peace”, which according to the Executive Secretary Peace Ambassadors The Gambia Fabakary Kalleh, “to live in peace is a [...]

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The 10th Edition of the bi-annial International Roots Festival was stated for 4th-10th February 2011, with a weeklong programme. “The 10th Edition of the Roots festival was expected to bring together positive thinking Africans who share the same common objectives, origins and heritage, who collectively focus on all positive key aspects that may contribute to [...]

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The Gambian Vice President and Minister of Women Affairs Dr. Isatou Njie-Saidy has on 12 January 2010 at the Kairaba Beach Hotel at the official Launching of the 2010Human Development Report urged the UN system to increase budgetary allocation and ensure timely released of funds is the first mouth of the year.

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African Group of Ambassadors at the United Nations say a military option against incumbent Laurent Gbagbo by ECOWAS is a “no option”, a statement vindicating President Mills on his position in the political stalemate in La Cote d’Ivoire.

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report on the Human Development 2010 was official launched on 12 January 2011, at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Banjul. The annual global Human Development Report (HRD) has been published by UNDP since 1990 as intellectually independent and empiricially founded analyses of development issues, trends, progress and policies. According [...]

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BREASTFEEDING EXCLUSIVELY for six months may put babies off some foods and increase their risk of allergies, obesity and iron deficiency, an expert report reveals today. Read more on www.nayank80.blogspot.com

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Yara International ASA, a leading global fertilizer company is injecting US$20m into Tanzania’s economy to fuel the country’s agricultural growth. The amount according to company officials would be invested into a new fertilizer terminal by the port in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s commercial city.

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Ghanaian youths are gaining notoriety for the country in connection with internet scams. The Accra Daily Mail (ADM) newspaper, which this writer works for, is daily inundated with sad stories from abroad of how men and women who believe they are getting the love of their lives end up being bilked of huge sums of [...]

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