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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Gambia has had a 100% digital network since 1995, but fixed-line penetration has remained low at around 3%, which in turn has hindered Internet usage. This is expected to change with ambitious plans to multiply teledensity by 2008, making extensive use of wireless systems. ADSL broadband services were introduced in 2006. Mobile penetration is well above the African average and is expected to be driven...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
God made us with great differences in terms of our individual capacities. While some are talented in specific areas of the arts, others are gifted with wisdom, and for others material riches are the bases of their strength. Nature dictates that we can never be equal; lest there will be no peace in the world, because nobody would want to submit to authority.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Sudanese minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Joseph Alkelo, flew into Banjul, yesterday, as a special envoy of President Al-Bashir to deliver a written message to President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, which was received on his behalf by the vice-president, Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy at State House, Banjul.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dida Abdi Jallow Halake, a former managing director of the Observer Company, was, yesterday, discharged on charges of sedition and giving false information by Principal Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Kanifing Magistrates Court.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alhaji Banding Drammeh, the incumbent president of the Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (SIC), is unsure of his re-election for another term as the president of the country's supreme Islamic body.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
With barely three weeks for the national U-17 team, Sierra Stars to face Baby Scorpions of The Gambia for the 8th edition of U-17 championship qualifiers, I begin to wonder how serious is the All Peoples Congress (APC) government to see the team face the Gambians.
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3wan.net (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Globacom Sets to Acquire Gambia, Liberian Operating Licences Head of Glo Gateway, Mr Charles Odiase, has disclosed that Globacom is set to acquire operating licences in The Gambia and Liberia, following offers from officials of the two countries. Odiase, in an interactive session with newsmen, said the offers for Glo to operate in both countries arose, because of its landmark achievements in the area...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
One Isatou Fatty was, yesterday, paraded before the Brikama Magistrates Court, for allegedly dumping her newborn in a toilet pit, after giving birth at Farato Village.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The responsibility of whatever belongs to all rest on everybody; so when a call is made to render services to such a cause everybody is obliged to heed to such a call. Such is what the call to Kanilai is about. The call by His Excellency, President Yahya Jammeh, for Gambians to help on his farm, is one that deserves urgent response.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Burama Dibba, a former crime management coordinator (CMC) of the Gambia Police Force (GPF) was, yesterday, acquitted and discharged by Senior Magistrate Kayode Olajubutu of Banjul Magistrates Court, following a no-case-to-answer submission by a team of defence counsel.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The Department of State for Trade, Industry and Employment, in collaboration with the Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation, yesterday started a three-day training seminar on the World Trade Organisation's notification requirements under the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreements, at the Corenthia Atlantic Hotel, Banjul.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The special representative of the United Nation's secretary general Ban-Ki Moon, on Monday, called on the vice president, Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy, in her office at State House in Banjul.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Benedict Jammeh, the director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), yesterday, testified in the criminal trial of Burama Dibba, a former crime management coordinator (CMC) of the Gambia Police Force, who has been charged with giving false information to a public officer.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Mr Samba Faal, the mayor of Banjul and president of the Gambia Association of Local Government Authorities (Galga) has been elected as a member of the pan-African World Council through the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA), during the ordinary congress of UCLGA, from July 7- July 11, in Accra, Ghana.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Senior Magistrate EF M'Bai of the Brikama Magistrates Court, Thursday, convicted and sentenced one Lamin Kanyi, a resident of Busumbala Village, Kombo Central, to a fine of D1 million.
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rupali | 12/27/2007
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;...
