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DAKAR Monday, June 04, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 380 for 28 May - 1 June (irinnews.org)

NEW YORK Monday, May 28, 2007 (IRIN) - The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) has launched a ‘standard’ to improve accountability and quality in the delivery of disaster and relief aid. Crucially, the people at the receiving end will have the opportunity to judge such assistance. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Friday, May 25, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 379 for 21 - 25 May (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Friday, May 11, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 377 for 5 - 11 May 2007 (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Friday, April 20, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 374 for 14-20 April 2007 (irinnews.org)

Intelligence officer released after one year in detention Banjul, Gambia - Yaya Bajinka, an officer of the Gambia National Intellig ence Agency , has been released unconditionally after being held for one ye a ... via Panapress

Here is His Excellency President Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh's speech delivered by Her Excellency the Vice President Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy at the July 22nd Square yesterday (AllAfrica)

President Jammeh has vowed to keep the country's agriculture under his watchful eyes, saying that he would never assign the Cabinet portfolio to anyone, owing to the degeneration that had smirched the state department. (AllAfrica)

Yesterday marked international women's day celebrations. In the Gambia, it came at the height of a series of conferences and workshops, both locally and regionally sanctioned deliberations, as part of ongoing effort in the promotion of the course of women on this continent in particular and the world in general. (AllAfrica)

A new bilateral air service agreement between South Africa and The Gambia was on Thursday, signed at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, Kololi. (AllAfrica)

The rural water project initiative, which resulted from the long-term bilateral co-operation between the governments of the Gambia and Japan, has been taking pace in the rural areas, especially in areas around of the Lower River Region, most notably, in the Districts of Kiang. (AllAfrica)

Robert Patrick Ellison C.S.Sp., the Bishop of Banjul, will officially welcome the Cardinal Archbishop of Dakar to The Gambia on Thursday, May 22, according to press release from the Office of the Bishop of Banjul. (AllAfrica)

Antouman Gaye, a senior Gambian lawyer, has taken over the the criminal case involving an escapee from a US prison. Christopher Badjie, said to have five different names, is facing 22 charges, including impersonation. (AllAfrica)

The signing of an agreemen t between the Agency for Air N avigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar and the Senegalese authoritie s on the transfer of the management of ASECNA's national airports to Senegal ... via Panapress

DAKAR Wednesday, July 04, 2007 (IRIN) - Behind the Soumbedioune fish market in the centre of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, three men jumped out of a brightly decorated canoe laden with fish. Each of these three has already attempted the dangerous, 1448km journey from Senegal to the Canary Islands and forms part of the rising tide of illegal immigrants gambling with their lives at sea for better work, better pay, and better lives in Europe. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Monday, July 02, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 383 for 23 - 29 June (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Monday, July 02, 2007 (IRIN) - The 2007 report on progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is pessimistic on Africa’s chances of achieving the targets overall, but notes that the number of extreme poor has increased only marginally - from 296 million in 1999 to 298 million in 2004, despite a population growth rate of 2.3 percent. (irinnews.org)

BANJUL Friday, February 23, 2007 (IRIN) - 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 President Yahya Jammeh’s widely-publicised cure for HIV/AIDS. (irinnews.org)

BANJUL Monday, February 12, 2007 (IRIN) - An unsubstantiated but well-publicised claim by The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh that he can cure AIDS risks setting back efforts to stop the virus from spreading in the tiny West Africa nation and the region, campaigners warn. (irinnews.org)

BANJUL Wednesday, October 25, 2006 (IRIN) - Angry peanut farmers in The Gambia were relieved in October when they finally received what amounted to more than $1.5 million they were owed for up to a year. (irinnews.org)

Banjul, May 9 Gambian President Alhaji Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh, expressed thanks for Cuban medical collaboration, which includes four educational centers created in the country. via Prensa Latina

The director general of the Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA), yesterday said that shopkeepers whose stalls were demolished by soldiers on the directives of the GTA, were illegal occupants of the areas concerned. (AllAfrica)

Ismaila Sambou, the secretary of state for Local Government, Lands and Religious Affairs, on Monday, received a cheque for D299,760 from the Kerewan Area Council, as its second counterpart contribution for the construction of the new Farrafenni Market. (AllAfrica)

African ministers responsible for economic integration are due to meet 22-23 May 2008 in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, to rationalise and harmonise the programmes of regional economic communities, with a view to ... via Panapress

President Jammeh has warned district chiefs, Alkalolu, governors and even secretaries of state to stand firmly in support and protection of poor farmers against exploitation by rice dealers and retailers or he would be forced to use his electric broom. (AllAfrica)

A line of stalls were last week demolished, turning the area into a ground zero, by personnel of the Tourism Security Unit, following allegations that the owners had been using the area to trade in illicit drugs. (AllAfrica)

Senior magistrate Buba Jawo of Kanifing Magistrates Court has advised tenants to always exercise maturity in dealing with family feuds involving their children. (AllAfrica)

GAMBIA: Commonwealth cries foul as Jammeh wins landslide victory (irinnews.org)

BANJUL Friday, July 07, 2006 (IRIN) - As The Gambia gears up for presidential elections in September questions are being raised about the preparations for the polls, but a clampdown on local journalists means independent scrutiny is in short supply. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, June 22, 2006 (IRIN) - When the African Union (AU) meets for its annual summit in the Gambian capital Banjul next week, local journalists will not only report on events they will also recall them. (irinnews.org)

BANJUL Wednesday, March 22, 2006 (IRIN) - The Gambian government has thwarted a coup attempt, a presidential communique said on Wednesday, but it is business as usual in the capital Banjul. (irinnews.org)