Gambiaj.com – (PARIS) – “Our access to capital is both restricted and shockingly expensive. Our fiscal and monetary policies are dictated,
Gambiaj.com – (BANJUL) The Migration and Sustainable Development in The Gambia Project highlights the crucial role of Africa’s diaspora in facilitating economic, social, political, and cultural exchange.
Gambiaj.com – As recently reported in The New York Times and The Washington Post, the Gambian parliament voted overwhelmingly to advance a bill that would repeal a 2015 ban on Female Genital Cutting in the small, West African country. If the bill proceeds to ratification, it will be the first time a country has eliminated protections against cutting, and experts fear that it could lead other countries to follow.
Gambiaj.com – In the face of the outcry raised by a proposed law authorizing female genital mutilation (FGM), the Gambian Parliament has decided to suspend discussions. A Pyrrhic victory, illustrating the impotence of legislative and political measures in countering certain challenges.
Gambiaj.com – The Gambia’s housing crisis is holding the country and its citizens back. Merging innovative financing with regulatory changes can stimulate cross-sector cooperation and help ensure sustainable, accessible homeownership across the country, writes Ebrima Faal.
Gambiaj.com – I think it is Mai Fatty who is coming up with gargantuan distortions and falsities driven by unfounded experiences while deliberately deciding to mislead and downplay facts for interests best known to him. Mai must be reminded that he is not the only typical Jahanka of the Great Manding Empire who knows the Manding culture more than anyone.
In a nation where over 800,000 youth currently pursue basic education with optimism, an insidious threat quietly suffocates their potential. The
Gambiaj.com – Since early February, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, has been rocked by protests directed against western embassies . Protests took place in front of the British and French embassies and in front of United Nations buildings. Throughout the city, American and Belgian flags were burned.
“Genocide is a very difficult thing to actually convict people of, it’s not an easy process because you have to establish
Returning to the Gambia, the scale of the change since Jammeh was exiled is immediately evident; the arrivals tax ($20) is collected efficiently, immigration is smooth, bags are already in the arrivals hall, and customs quickly x-ray bags to counter smuggling. I confess to feeling a little nostalgic for the chaos of arrivals in the past. Gambia has changed.
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