Gambia Travel News

This edition of Liberation Artists continues to highlight the contribution of art in the myriad of struggles against slavery, ignorance and distortion of African identity, colonialism, apartheid, by giving ...

Nairbobi/Dakar - Senegal's transport and armed forces ministers resigned late on Tuesday over the ferry sinking that claimed nearly 1 000 lives last week.

Film @ 7. Reads like a movie. Nothin' for me to add here. British engineer swims jungle river in escape from Gambia A British engineer who was being held in Gambia accused of illegally mining uranium has broken ...

With the help of an ex-Army captain, Charlie Northfield, 48, fled the capital Banjul and then evaded a series of police check points as he made an audacious dash through the West African jungle for the ...

Gambia's economy will grow at 6.5% this year, according to data released by the Monetary Policy Committee of Central Bank in Banjul on F r iday.

Ramadan is due to start on September 1st this year . Muslims throughout Africa will begin their month long fast from sun up to sundown.

A Kiwi tourist has been arrested in the West African country of Gambia after allegedly taking pictures of underage girls for his pornography business.

The hysteria which greeted our arrival in the fishing village of Tanji was that normally reserved for superstars or world leaders.

United States Senator Richard Durbin has called for the release of Gambian journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh.

Sen. Richard Durbin said he wanted to focus his colleagues' attention on a tragic story in a small West African nation.

Nigeria's Lt.-Gen. Chikadibia Obiakor, the newly-appointed peacekeeping adviser to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon assumed duty at th e UN headquarters here, PANA reported Sunday.

The Daily Observer Kemo Cham President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has reiterated his resolve to maintain an amiable relationship with the people of the neighbouring Republic of Senegal.

The last time Pearl Quarles visited Africa, she was struck by how the smallest of things can change lives.

Repair work on the Massingir dam on the Elephants ri ver, in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, are estimated to cost about US $ 15 million, the Mozambican government official spokesperson, Deputy ...

Investments in the mining sector of the Mozambican e conomy reached US$ 686 million between 2001 and 2007, a report Wednesday by the M ozambican News Agency, AIM, has indicated.

AU backs Sadc-led dialogue From Itai Musengeyi in Cairo, Egypt AFRICAN Union leaders on Tuesday adopted a Sadc-initiated resolution encouraging the continuation of dialogue between Government and the opposition ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has appealed for US$1 million for a project designed to help developing countri e s deny port access to boats involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated ...

The number of Russian tourists visiting African destinations is steadily increasing due to rising incomes and the desire to have uncommon wildlife experiences, according to travel agencies.

A preliminary study on biofuel production here has s uggested the most appropriate crops to use would be sunflower, sugar cane and sw e et sorghum, reported Friday's issue of the independent newsheet ...

BANJUL, 23 February 2007 - The government of The Gambia gave the most senior United Nations official in the country 48 hours to leave the country starting Friday, following remarks she made criticising Gambian ...