The Daily IIJ

Sustainable Land Management Project, (SLMP) a unit under the Participatory Integrated Watershed Management Project (PIWAMP), organized a six days training of trainers on Sustainable Land Management for sixty multi-level partner stakeholder institutions. SLMP project seeks to address interlinked problems of rural poverty, food insecurity and land degradation. After the training, trained participants are expected to [...]

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The West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA) a regional association of insurance companies and institutions in English West Africa, is holding its 34th Annual General meeting. The meeting dubbed “Professional and Ethical Behaviour in the Insurance Industry” and is taking place from 15th to 17 th April, 2012 at the Kariaba Beach Hotel and the [...]

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The 4th Africa Carbon Forum (ACF), this year in Addis Ababa, opened its doors today to over 1,000 registered participants from across the globe to foster a discussion on climate change and carbon finance in Africa. The message resonating this year from Addis is that Africa represents a golden opportunity for a green future. “The [...]

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Ms Meita Touray Secretary General of the Global Youth Innovation Network-Gambia acronym GYIN-Gambia, who is also a Reporter with the Daily Observer Newspaper has been invited to attend the fourth Africa Carbon Forum (ACF) which is schedule to place in the Ethiopian Capital Addis Ababa from the 18th-20th April 2012. Ms Touray on Tuesday 17 [...]

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The population of the developing world is still more rural than urban: some 3.1 billion people or 55 percent of the total population, live in rural areas, according to International Development Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 2011 report on rural poverty. However, between 2020 and 2025, the total rural population will peak and then start [...]

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A regional workshop on the Harmonization of accounting and financial reporting for Banks and other Credit Financial Institutions in ECOWAS on 2nd of April 2012, opened at Kairaba Beach Hotel. In his statement, the Director General of the West African Monetary Agency(WAMA),Professor Mohamed Ben Omar Ndiaye said that transparency, accounting and Public confidence both at [...]

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Muhammed Fayenkeh, President of National Coordinating Farmers Organizations otherwise called NACOFAG, has spoken of his organisation preparedness to respond to the food crisis in The Gambia. In an exlcusive interview with this Magazine at his office in Brikama, he said they would ensure the availability of quality seeds to Gambian farmers for the next raining [...]

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Rio +20 is around the corner and environmentalists, especially youth activists, around the world are gearing up for the big environmental show. Keeping in tune with the tradition of STEP to give voice to people in developing countries , Anuj Sharma, Journalist and a writer for Alter Eco and Times newspaper, also a contributor with [...]

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Over 300,000 vulnerable Gambians will benefit from UN emergency support, a press release from UNICEF office in The Gambia, obtained by Mansa Banko, disclosed. Below is the text of the full release: Banjul, The Gambia, 30 March, 2012 – In the wake of the 2011 drought in the country, the UN System in The Gambia [...]

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As plastic waste bags are becoming a major concern for the National Environment Agency (NEA), plans are underway to replace them with paper bags, Mr. Muhammud Jallom Jabang, Senior Programme Environment Quality Officer at NEA informed journalists during an interview at the sideline of the NEA organized forum with relevant stakeholders. The forum, held at [...]

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