APA-Banjul (The Gambia) The West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) will with effect from Monday organise in Banjul a five day regional course on liquidity for physical and monetary management, APA learns here Sunday.
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Sub-regional financial institute to organise course on liquidity in Gambian capital
The Gambia gears up to host AU fisheries ministers forum
APA-Banjul (The Gambia) African Union ministers of fisheries and aquaculture are due in Banjul for a meeting aimed at assessing the status of the sector, official sources disclose here Saturday.
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The Gambia embarks on swine flu vaccination
APA-Banjul (The Gambia) The Gambia on Monday embarked on a nationwide vaccination campaign against the AH1N1 influenza (Swine flu) with a team of health workers being dispatched across the whole country.
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Nationwide AH1N1 vaccination campaign starts in Gambia
APA-Banjul (The Gambia) A week-long nationwide vaccination campaign against the AH1N1 influenza or swine flu was embarked upon Monday morning by a team of health workers spread across the Gambia.
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Gambian fans exult over Algeria’s performance against England
APA Banjul-(The Gambia) Football fans in The Gambia on Friday were jubilant over what they perceived as a heroic performance by the Desert Foxes of Algeria who held the English national team to a goalless draw in their group match in the ongoing World Cup in South Africa.
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Gambian football fans blame Cameroonian coach for defeat by Japan
APA Banjul – (The Gambia) Livid and disappointed football fans and analysts in The Gambia on Monday criticised the Cameroonian coach, Paul Le Guen, after the Japanese team outclassed the Indomitable Lions in the ongoing World Cup tournament in South Africa.
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The Gambia’s biggest opposition party holds congress ahead of next elections
APA-Banjul (The Gambia) The Gambia’s biggest opposition party, the United Democratic Party (UDP), has over the weekend concluded its congress in Soma, in the Lower River Region, the party’s main support base.
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Tortured Gambian journalist testifies before ECOWAS court
APA-Abuja (Nigeria) Musa Saidykhan, a former editor-in-chief of the banned Banjul-based The Independent newspaper on Thursday told the ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja that those who tortured him while he was being detained in The Gambia, were members of President Yahya Jammeh’s presidential guards.
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Gambia’s fifth int’l cultural festival gets underway with pomp and gay
APA=Banjul (The Gambia) In a carnival like atmosphere, The Gambia’s 5th Kanilai International Festival finally got underway late Saturday night, with lots of speeches, dancing and drumming in President Yahya Jammeh’s village of birth, Kanilai, which lies in the Western Region some 120 kilometres from Banjul, the capital.
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Donors pledge $46 million to University of The Gambia
APA-Banjul (The Gambia) At the end of a two-day international donors conference at the Kairaba Beach Hotel outside Banjul on Tuesday, there was a pledge of about $46 million towards the development costs of the University of The Gambia.
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The Gambia hosts 35th congress of African Travel Association
APA-Banjul (The Gambia) Opening the 35th annual congress of the African Travel Association at the Sheraton Hotel and Spa at Brufut, about 20 kilometres outside Banjul, the Gambian Vice President Isatou Njie-Saidy said the hosting of the congress by The Gambia, for the second time, makes it stand out conspicuously as a unique destination and tourist haven.
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The Gambia gears up for 7th Kanilai international cultural festival
APA- Banjul (The Gambia) As The Gambia gears up to hold the fifth Kanilai International Cultural Festival from 21 May to 7 June, the festival organizers have included in it a mega concert by Germaine Jackson, the brother of the late legendary king of pop, Michael Jackson.
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