Migration

Suspected thieves allegedly stole a safe containing D60, 000, two laptops costing D36, 000 and a wireless costing D3, 500. The incident occurred on Friday in Sinchu Alhagie in the Kombo North District, in the West Coast Region.…

By Buba Gagigo The spokesperson of the Gambia Police Force has confirmed to Kerr Fatou the arrest of 14 suspects with D1, 772, 600 in connection to the D15 million missing from NAWEC’ AGIB Bank Account. "The…

On a sunny, humid day in April 2017, a plane carrying 170 Gambians from Libya touched down at the Banjul International Airport. First to step onto the tarmac – after four months of hardship in Libya’s capital and an even…

Banjul – In the evening of 21 January, 24 Gambian migrants stranded in Libya returned home safely through the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Voluntary Humanitarian Return Programme. Among the 24 returnees were two…

By Mustapha K Darboe Forty-nine-old Kebba Bojang sat on a sofa in his parlour with his wife Katty Joh. In their house were dozens of mourners. Bojang who lives and works in Kombo returned to Barra to console his wife on the death of…

$1.4 billion in transfers to the country between 2009 and 2018 $245 million in remittances received by households in 2018 (15% of GDP) 122, 310 households are receiving remittances on a monthly basis More than $100,000 in funding…