The challenge I set myself in doing EWA News was to deliberately set out to find “good news” about West Africa. I could easily fill this site with posts from many sources all of which tell negative aspects of the region. Personally, I have always had the ‘audacity of hope’ and please don’t think I’m [...] [...more]
APA-Banjul (The Gambia) A three-day sub-regional workshop on the rural finance challenges facing Africa was opened in Banjul on Monday by the Central Bank of the Gambia governor Momodou Bamba Saho. Saho told the participants drawn from the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria, that it was important to discuss and share experiences about “new initiatives [...] [...more]
On the second anniversary of a police raid on the privately-owned weekly The Independent, Reporters Without Borders calls on the government to lift the illegal and unofficial ban that has prevented the newspaper from publishing for the past two years. “By suppressing a newspaper that was often very critical, the government broke the laws that [...] [...more]
4 March 2008 “It is vitally important to recognise and value the press” – Barry Wells, US ambassador to The Gambia A media workshop on covering human rights issues, organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat together with the British High Commission and the US Embassy in The Gambia, opened in the town of Serekkunda on 4 March 2008 [...] [...more]
The Association of Small Scale Enterprises in Tourism (ASSET) was established in April 2000 in order to bring together, advocate for, and promote a large number of small enterprises that were active in the tourism industry in The Gambia. Click here: ASSET [...more]
A group of Gambian media practitioners in Dakar, Senegal, and The Gambia have recently launched an online radio that features mainly issues affecting The Gambia. Radio Alternative Voice, found at www.radioavg.com on the World Wide Web, offers programmes in English, Mandingka and Wollof. With the current political atmosphere in The Gambia, which is characterised [...] [...more]
Although foreign and domestic investment is encouraged in virtually all the sectors of the Gambian economy, the Government is giving the highest priority to, and is especially keen about increased flow of investment into the following areas: Agriculture, especially in horticulture, floriculture, animal husbandry, fruit/vegetable processing and canning Fisheries and forestry exploitation Tourism and travel Light [...] [...more]
The Gambia Investment Promotion and Free Zones Agency (GIPFZA) is the national agency charged with the promotion of The Gambia as an ideal investment destination, co-ordination and facilitation of such investments and regulation of designated free zones in The Gambia. [...more]
BBC Network Africa - Radio programme [...more]
Index on Africa is a gateway to information on Africa on the Internet, with over 3.800 links sorted by country, subject and news. The Index has been created by The Norwegian Council for Africa (NCA), as a part of NCA’s efforts to raise awareness about Africa and African affairs. Gambia [...more]
