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The number of African countries offering e-visas has risen from 9 in 2016 to 26 in 2024, the latest addition of the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) has revealed, with Benin, The Gambia, Rwanda and the Seychelles ranked the highest in visa openness, with Africans requiring no visas to enter these countries. The 2024 Africa […]
Traffic has resumed Thursday on the Trans-Gambian route, which connects Senegal’s north and south through The Gambia. Truck drivers from Senegal have stopped using the road to demonstrate against the latest customs policies implemented by the Gambian Government. A settlement was reached following a meeting on Wednesday August 14 between the ministers of Trade and […]
Nigeria said it will deploy 197 peacekeepers to Gambia to back the ECOWAS’s peace and stability mandate. Troops from ECOWAS entered The Gambia in January 2017 following long-time Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to step down after losing the 2016 presidential election to Adama Barrow. This intervention ultimately resolved the 2016-17 Gambian constitutional crisis, and […]
Morocco officially opened its embassy in Gambia’s capital Banjul, expressing strong willingness to deepen ties at all levels. Morocco’s foreign minister Nasser Bourita inaugurated the embassy on the sidelines of his attendance of an OIC summit in Banjul. The opening was attended by Gambia’s foreign minister and members of the accredited diplomatic corps. Morocco and […]
President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, has addressed to King Mohammed VI a written message, whose contents were not disclosed. The message was handed over by Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara to his Moroccan peer at a meeting held Monday in Rabat. In a statement to the media following the meeting, Tangara described bilateral relations […]
Morocco and the Gambia have discussed ways of strengthening cooperation in military training and the exchange of experiences in matters of defense. During a meeting held Monday in Rabat, Inspector General of Royal Armed Forces, Commander of the South Zone Lt. General Mohamed Berrid and visiting Maj. General Mamat OA CHAM, Chief of Defense Staff […]
The Gambia has reaffirmed its steadfast support for Morocco’s Autonomy plan, saying it is the only “credible and realistic” solution to the Sahara regional conflict. The supportive stand was expressed in a joint communiqué issued Thursday in the Moroccan Saharan city of Dakhla following the 3rd meeting of the Morocco-Gambia Cooperation commission held under the […]
China’s recent announcement that it was expanding its tariff-free policy to additional African countries, namely Angola, Gambia, Congo, Madagascar, Mali and Mauritania, may be a catalyst for new opportunities amid criticisms about the trade imbalance, according to experts. The Chinese government announced on 25 December 2023 that it was granting the additional six African states […]
The trial of Ousman Sonko, a Gambian ex-interior minister accused of crimes against humanity committed under the regime of a former dictator Yahya Jammeh from 2006 until 2016, began in a federal court in Switzerland on Monday (8 January). Sonko is the highest-ranking official under Jammeh’s dictatorship, to be prosecuted for widespread rights abuses. Sonko […]
President of the Republic of Gambia, Adama Barrow, has addressed a written message to King Mohammed VI. The message, whose contents were not disclosed, was carried by Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mamadou Tangara who said he is visiting Morocco as special envoy of the Gambian President. The message was handed over to […]