The Gambia Police Force has today announced that the expired documents in circulation will be considered valid until the matter between the state and Semlex is resolved.
General Mbaye Cissé, the Chief of General Staff of the Senegalese Armed Forces, paid His Excellency Mohammed B.S. Jallow, the Vice President of the Gambia, a courtesy call today.
Semlex, the company that makes Gambian ID cards and driver licenses, demands that the government of The Gambia enter into a full contract renewal with the company before it resumes operations, according to The Standard Newspaper, which cited a reliable source with knowledge of the country’s biometric document operations. Since Sunday, Semlex has not conducted business in The Gambia.
President Adama Barrow announced on Day 2 of his Meet the Peoples Tour that fees for obtaining administrative and national documents, as well as other public services like hospital consultations and treatments, compound transactions, court summonses, and so forth, will increase generally by 150 to 300 percent.
Ebrima G. Sankareh, the Government Spokesperson and Presidential Diaspora Adviser, announced today that the contract for the production of biometric ID cards and related documents, signed on July 17th, 2018, with Semlex Group SA, has recently expired. Mr Sankareh made the disclosure while discussing the recent halt in the issuance of Gambian identity cards, passports, and driver’s licenses.
President Adama Barrow announced on Day One of his Meet the People Tour that the government of The Gambia will purchase farmers’ groundnuts at an increased price of D 38,000 per ton. The government’s price per ton last year was D32,000.
The Republic of Seychelles and The Gambia have officially established Diplomatic Relations. This was materialised at the Chancery of the Republic
The Gambia has on Thursday got the support of 5 European nations around the world and Canada who are now seeking to be part of a case brought by The Gambia at the United Nations’ highest court docket that accuses Myanmar of committing genocide towards its Rohingya minority.
President Adama Barrow has now announced that The Gambia’s hosting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which had been rescheduled three times since 2020, will now take place on May 4th of next year.
Demba Sabally, Gambia’s Minister of agriculture, has praised China’s aid and assistance projects to his country as “extremely meaningful” and have begun to transform his country’s agricultural sector and farmer population.
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