[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Addis Ababa -- Small West African nation follows Ghana in successfully eradicating the painful eye disease, which still affects people in more than 40 countries

[Foroyaa] Health authorities have on Wednesday 21st April 2021 informed this medium that nineteen thousand six hundred and thirty-four (19,634) people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of 18th April 2021.

[Foroyaa] The national assembly joint committee on Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and Human Rights and Constitutional Matters has engaged the country's election body (IEC) on the Election Bill 2021.

[Foroyaa] Sixty-five (65) individuals who were arrested and handed over to Drug Law Enforcement Agency The Gambia (DLEAG) by "Operation Zero Crime" Unit have been charged with drug related offences.

[Foroyaa] The Gambia has on Wednesday 21st April 2021 registered one new COVID-19 related death, bringing the total number of deaths since March 2020 to one hundred and seventy-one.

[The Point] Press release : In the wake of a raging controversy over some Two Hundred Thousand Dollars($200,000)

[The Point] The Gambia Football Federation's (GFF) First Division One League night matches is currently attracting hundreds of fans from Greater Banjul and its satellite areas.

[The Point] Solidarity is, according to the dictionary of the Spanish language, the bond that unites men and peoples in such a way that the well-being of some determines that of others, it is union, adhesion and joint responsibility.

[The Point] The second ECOWAS Hydromet Forum is under way in the Gambia capital, Banjul.

[The Point] Samger Football Club and Falcons Football Club are currently leading the 2020-2021 Gambia Football Federation's (GFF) Division Two League after the completion of the first round of the country's second tier.

[The Point] The Justice Minister and Attorney General of the Gambia Dawda Jallow says honorariums are legitimate payments in The Gambia, while reiterating that the $200,000 was a bulk payment of 18 month arrears OIC owed to the Gambian team working o...

[The Point] The minister of Women Affairs, Children, and Social Welfare has revealed that women make up about 51% of the country's population with literacy level of about 48.1% between the ages of 15 - 49, according to MICS 2018 report.

[The Point] Secretary general and leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), has admitted that his greatest regret in life was shouting at Ebrima Solo Sandeng on the phone before he was allegedly killed by former state agents.

[The Point] The Gambia national team; the Scorpions are currently stretching their muscles up for their upcoming international friendly match in June 2021.

[The Point] Poor management of health care waste is a burning issue in many developing countries and The Gambia is no exception.

[The Point] The Brikama Area Council (BAC) on Tuesday embarked on road construction site visit at Sinchu-Alhagie village in the Kombo North District, West Coast Region (WCR), seeking to observe and monitor the ongoing project.

[The Point] Abuko United Female Football Club over the weekend secured second-spot in the 2020-2021 Gambia Football Federation (GFF) women's league one campaign.

[The Point] As part of the culture of 'caring and sharing' in the Holy Month of Ramadan, a Qatari philanthropist has extended magnanimity to vulnerable households with the donation of 238 25kg of rice, 21bags of sugar, 157 five liters of oil among ot...

[The Point] The Gambia gained two more places in the World Press Freedom Index established in 2021 by the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Ranked 87th in 2020, The Gambia is 85th in the ranking published on Tuesday out of 180 m...

[The Point] The former Attorney General of the 1994 Junta, Edrissa Fafa Mbai, on Tuesday continued his testimony, insisting he did not take part in the drafting of the draconian decrees for the Junta government that led many Gambians into problems an...

[Foroyaa] The President of the Network of Financial and Tax Reporters (NFTR) Gambia chapter has strongly defended his network's vision to empower and enhance the competence of Gambian journalists through capacity building for them to effective and ef...

[Foroyaa] The Gambia has on Tuesday 20th April 2021 registered fifty-one new cases of COVID-19 taking the total number of cases ever confirmed in the country to five thousand, seven hundred and eighty-four.

[Foroyaa] Fafa E. M'Bai, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has denied playing any role in the process of drafting decrees and creation of Commissions of Inquiries for the 1994 Junta.

[Foroyaa] Justice Kumba Sillah-Camara has on Tuesday taken time to address Defence Lawyers in the NIA 9 trial for breaching their Code of Conduct by allowing their clients to misbehave in court.

[Foroyaa] Recent happenings require the public to be sensitized on where the responsibility of a political party starts and stops and where the responsibility of a state starts and stops, on the issue of crime.

[Foroyaa] The murder trial involving Yankuba Touray, a former member of the military government that toppled the PPP Government in 1994 is closed to judgement as the trial judge, Justice Ebrima Jaiteh on Tuesday ordered lawyers the prosecution and de...

[Foroyaa] QUESTION OF THE DAY

[Foroyaa] The Gambia Government has issued a statement to clarify the controversy over the payment of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to past and present senior officials of the Ministry of Justice who are serving as counsels in the genocide ...

[The Point] The Gambia Press Union (GPU) is appalled with the news of physical harassment and verbal assault meted out on one of its members, Yankuba Jallow, a reporter with Foroyaa newspaper.

[The Point] As part of sharing and caring during the period of the Holy Month of Ramadan, the Chief Executive Officer of Munduk Trading Enterprise Company, Lamin Barrow, a Gambian businessman last Friday donated Ramadan food gifts to Munduk Football ...