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.
The International Development Association (IDA) has been granted $60 million in funding by the World Bank board to assist the Government of The Gambia in realizing its full potential for productivity and strengthening its resilience to climate change.
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.
Beth Van Schaack, the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice at the Office of Global Criminal Justice, issued a statement applauding The Gambia’s recent progress in implementing some critical steps of the transitional Justice program. Ambassador Beth Van Schaack was in Banjul recently and met with Chief Justice Hassan Jallow.
Seedy Keita, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, recently presented the 2024 budget estimates to the National Assembly. He revealed that the government’s total expenditure and net lending are expected to rise by 6%, from D37.15 billion in 2023 to D39.38 billion in 2024. Here are three key points from the minister’s speech to National Assembly members.
Betty Jahateh, a Gambian studying environmental biology in Swansea, has been named to National Geographic’s list of Young Explorers as a “exceptional individual in their fields.” Betty just finished presenting her findings at the organization’s headquarters in Washington, DC.
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.
Addy van den Krommenacker is in The Gambia to showcase his latest collection, “Out of Africa Revisited.” Since Monday, the craft is displayed at the Gambia International Fashion Week at the Conference Centre in Banjul, Gambia.
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