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West Africa travel trade show set for October in Gambia

The Gambia Tourism Authority and their West African partners invite travel professionals to “MBOKA 2008”, the first West African Travel Market, which will take place from 18 -22 October 2008 in Banjul, The Gambia. MBOKA 2008 is a business to business event (B2B) bringing together major actors involved in tourism & hospitality linking West Africa and Europe. This tourism fair will include presentations,...

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Qcell recieves fourth GSM licence (Gambia)

Qcell has been issued with the country’s fourth GSM network operating licence by Gambia’s Department of State for Communications, Information and Information Technology (DOSCIIT). Qcell will aim to launch 3G services including voice, data and video. According to DOSCIIT, the licence was granted in line with a strategy of universal telecoms access strategy and will have [...]

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Gambia telecom company asked to render account

Banjul, Gambia – Gambian lawmakers have ord ered the country's telecommuni cation companies, Gamtel and Gamcel, to present its accounts to parliament's Public Accounts and Enterprises Committee by 8 September. The public has been demanding to know the financial position of Gamtel/Gamcel since the government sold 50 per cent of shares in the state-owned telecom company to Spectrum company, a Lebanese-owned...

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WB official visits Gambia

Banjul, Gambia - The Vice-President, World Bank Human Development Network , Ms. Joy Phumaphi, arrived here Wednesday on a two-day official visit to the Department of State for Basic and Secondary Education in the Gambia.

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cares - The Gambia, Texas, United States

From Western part Africa to morocco out there to The Gambia Tourism, from Gambia to Liberian, to Mali

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Top World Bank official expected in Gambia

Dakar, Senegal - Botswanan-born World Bank Vice President, Ms Joy Phumaphi, is expected to embark on a three-day working visit to the Gambia from 20 August, the West African country's education officials revealed in a press statement on Tuesday.

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Gambia: A Genuine Call is Worth Supporting

Since the presidential treatment program was constituted, the central explanation put forward by President Jammeh has always been that the inspiration emanated from a divine ordinance; but for us at the home front, it was quite apparent that the earthly motivation was born out of an extraordinary genial bond between an altogether unique kind of a leader and his people; a leader who has defied almost...

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Gambia: Ecowas Sets Up Team On Death of Ghanaians

A joint UN-ECOWAS fact-finding team has been established to investigate the death of some Ghanaians found buried in The Gambia three years ago and to help bring the matter to a peaceful closure.

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KMC Donates to Presidential Treatment Programme

The Kanifing Municipal Council, under the leadership of Mayor Yankuba Colley, yesterday donated D100,000 to the Presidential treatment programme.

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Lack of Funds May Stop Sierra Stars

National U-17 team, the Sierra Stars may not honour their first leg encounter with Baby Scorpions of The Gambia slated for month end in Banjul due to lack of funds.

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Ambassador Dutbanjong Donates to RVTH

Itti Dutbanjong, the ambassador of Thailand, on Tuesday, donated 5,000 malaria kits to the Royal Victorial Teaching Hospital (RVTH) at a presentation ceremony held at the RVTH conference hall in Banjul.

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Scholarship Students Implored to Excel

Forty-nine Gambian recipients of Taiwanese scholarships for university programmes, including clinical medicine and civil engineering, were on Tuesday morning, hosted to an orientation at the offices of the Gambia National Petroleum Company, where they were implored to hoist the country's flag higher during the course of their academic pursuits at the Asian Pacific island state.

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Standards - Key to Disaster Prevention - VP Tells Relevant Authorities

The vice-president, Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, who is also the chairperson of the National Disaster Relief Committee has called on relevant authorities to ensure conformity to standards as a way of minimising the intensity and devastating consequences of disasters in the country.

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Iranian Diplomat Explores Legislative Ties

Hon Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, the speaker of the National Assembly, on Tuesday, received Saeid Zare, the head of the Iranian Mission to The Gambia, in her office, in a bid to establish ties between the Assembly and the Iranian parliament.

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Gambian journalists call sentencing of colleague "jungle justice"

Dakar, Senegal - The US branch of the Gambia Press Union (GPU) on Wednesd ay decried the sentencing of their colleague, Fatou Jaw Manneh, calling it "jungle justice". "We believe that Magistrate (Buba) Jawo's ruling in Fatou's case was heavily influenced by a regime that holds our country's justice system hostage and appoints puppet judges to carry out its nefarious mission of subjugation and oppression,"...

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Africa - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Western region report 2007

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the trends and developments in telecommunications markets in seven developing West African telecom markets: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal. Subjects covered include: Key statistics; Market and industry overviews; Regulatory environment and structural reform; Major players (fixed and mobile); Infrastructure development;...