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Miracle Neem
Fatou Secka, a woman in her mid-eighties from Serrekunda, reaped the multiple benefits of the neem tree when she decided to try…
No Less Than a Woman: How Sainabou Turns “Shame” of Infertility Into…
In January 1983, Sainabou Njie, 63, got married to her current husband. The hope was that she would bear a lot of kids. She was…
Donkey Job: How Donkey Carts Confront Gambia’s Waste Problem
Managing waste has been a huge challenge in the Kanifing Municipality, the Gambia’s busiest region, for many decades. In some…
Inside Bakau Health Center Where Toilets Have no Running Water and Patients…
In a waiting area of Bakau Health Center, Isatou (not her real name) sits her young daughter on her lap waiting to see a doctor.…
Foreign Affairs Ministry Seeking Advice on Melville Roberts Rape…
The Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the ministry is seeking advice from relevant authorities on how to deal…
Gambia and Senegal Launch Joint Anti-Malaria Campaign at the Border
Authorities in The Gambia and Senegal Sunday
converged at the border village of Kerr Ayib, near Farafenni to jointly launched…
Gambia Needs D8 Billion to Deliver Effective Healthcare Service, Says…
The Director of Planning at the Ministry of Health and Social
Welfare, Gibril Jarjue has said that The Gambia needed about D8…
Responsive Parenting Education: Keeping Young Fathers Knee-Deep in Early…
Just few months ago, it was unthinkable to see young men in some parts of rural Gambia shouldering basic child care…
Smelly, Messy, Hazardous: Bakoteh Dumpsite and the Growing Garbage Heaps
In the middle of the sprawling residential district
of Bakoteh, heaps of trash loom large in the Gambia’s biggest open-air…
#MenDeserveSelfCare
“10 year old me. Caleb you really
came this far. I’ve only thought I’d die young so being here is a miracle.”
Caleb Macauley is a…
