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Gambia ranks behind Senegal on W/B Ease of Doing Business Index
The Gambia has been ranked 149 out of 190 countries in the world that are suitable for doing business in the 2019 World Bank Ease of Doing Business Index.
The country falls eight places behind its neighbor Senegal that scored 141 ranking…
Body fighting money laundering in ECOWAS to gather in Banjul
The Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) will hold its 30th Technical Commission/Plenary Meeting in Banjul from 11th to 16th November 2018, and its 19th Ministerial Committee Meeting on 17th…
OIC: Road expansion to affect businesses 40 meter off the road
A construction project that seeks to expand the road from Sting Corner to Airport junction will affect businesses and settlements 40 meters off the road, the secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Gambia has said.
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35 years of regional integration through insurance: Achievements, challenges and prospects
The 35th annual general assembly of the Council of Bureaux of the Ecowas Brown Card Insurance Scheme is to examine the achievements, challenges and prospects of sub-regional integration in member states.
Holding under the theme “35 Years…
‘Gambia gets two surveillance vessels to fight illegal fishing’
Gambian authorities have secured two surveillance vessels to fight illegal fishing in the country’s territorial waters, James Gomez, Minister for Fisheries, Water Resources and National Assembly Matters told journalists on Tuesday.…
Gambia hopes for regular, year-round flights with Russia – Ambassador Bah
The Gambia hopes to expand the number of flights to and from Russia, making them regular and year-round, Jainaba Bah, the Gambian ambassador to Russia, told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Russian-African Social Forum on Tuesday
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FAR Ltd commences drilling Samo-1 oil well offshore Gambia
Drilling is targeting an estimated Prospective Resource of 825 million barrels of oil.
FAR Ltd has commenced drilling on the Samo-1 exploration well in the 40% owned block A2 located offshore The Gambia.
The Samo-1 well will be drilled…
W’African countries to accept one another’s currencies next year – WAMI
By the second quarter of 2019, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia and Guinea will be accepting currencies from one another as part of the integration of the payment system of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ).
The Director…
Panel that probes SSHFC crisis says staff broke the law
The panel established by President Adama Barrow to investigate the crisis at the Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation has concluded that the protest carried out by staff were not in accordance of the law.
The panel…
Main dynamics of Turkey’s enterprising and humanitarian foreign policy: Turkey ambassador
As we proceed to the end of the second decade of the 21st century, the parameters and the dynamics which had been referred for the definition of the international system in the previous centuries seem to be obsolete currently to…