The Daily IIJ

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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The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs (MoFEA), Mr. Mambury Njie has stated that the government “firmly believes” that the Technical Assistance Grant for capacity Building in Project Management from the Islamic Development Bank, would address the present capacity gaps and greatly improve performance not only in the implementation of IDB funded projects, but other [...]

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The Gambia Competition Commission under the purview of Ministry of Trade, Employment and Regional Integration, with the technical andfinancial support from Tradecom, organised a stakeholders workshop on the Implementation of a Competition and Consumer Protection Regime. The stakeholders workshop was held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, the sensitization forum focused on consumer protection bill gears [...]

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By Leela Ghimire Chennai, 05 April Nitish, a nine-year old boy starts his day stepping into the cool sand of  the Nochikuppam slums in Tamilnadu. Living in a beach where his parents with most of the people around have nothing to do than fishing Nitish on the other hand never wants to be a fish [...]

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Farmers across the length and breadth of The Gambia have hailed the activities of the Participatory Integrated Watershed Management Project (PIWAMP) in their regions. PIWAMP in the recent years has improved our livelihood, especially we, (the women) of Jarumeh Koto village, remarked Mrs. Lisa Ceesay, who was speaking to Global Youth Innovation Network- GYIN-Gambia National [...]

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The National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) has in a press release issued to the media on 26th March, 2012 viewed the deteriorating Quality of Service (QoS) provided by mobile phone operators as a disturbing situation that requires immediate solution. 

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The Project Management Unit of the Participatory Integrated Watershed Management Project called PIWAMP, from 16 to 17 March, 2012 held its 2011 annual consultative meeting at the Rural Agricultural Farmers Training Centre at Jenoi in Lower River Region. The meeting brought together the management and staff of PIWAMP, Coordinators of Project Units, representatives from the [...]

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The West African Tax Administrartion forum (WATAF) is part of the African Tax Administration forum which was formally launched in Uganda on 16 November 2006 to enable African Tax Administrators assist each other to build capacity, share best practices, as well as exchange relevant information in order to strengthen the mobilisation of domestic revenue and [...]

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The Gambia’s sole producer, transmitter and distributor of electricity, water and sewerage, NAWEC, is feared to “go under” amidst growing financial problems. The state-owed company, which continues to operate on obsolete machines, is financially in jeopardy as the government continues to take loans and accumulating debts. NAWEC owes more than three billion Dalasi to lenders, [...]

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The Jawneh family of Brikama, West Coast Region, headed by Mr. Musa Jawneh President of the National Farmers’ Platform has installed and equipped four scale cashew processing business in The Gambia. The installation came as a result to enhance value-added processing of high quality cashew nuts in The Gambia through a programme by the International [...]

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