The Gambia Ferry Services promised to complete much needed maintenance works on the Kunta Kinteh Ferry. This article tracks if the promise was kept or not?

This factsheet highlights how members of the sixth legislature voted on the Parliamentary Report prepared by the Joint Committee on Bill to repeal the ban on Female Genital Mutilation / Circumcision.

A Swiss Court sentenced former Interior Minister, Ousman Sonko, to 20 years in prison on 15th May 2024 making him the most high-profile conviction of a senior government official under Universal Jurisdiction in Europe.

Since the exchange of press releases between the Judiciary, the National Assembly’s Finance and Public Accounts Committee and the National Audit Office earlier in April 2024, the question remained unanswered as to when the Judiciary was last audited. This article aims to verify the last time the Judiciary was audited.

Road traffic accidents in The Gambia have been a cause for concern with the new six lane Bertil Harding Highway identified as one of the most dangerous routes, with 102 accidents reported as of January 2024.

The Gambia’s Judiciary Service and the National Assembly’s Finance and Public Accounts Committee were at loggerheads over the submission of the Judiciary’s audited accounts after a scheduled April 18, 2024 didn’t hold. This article seeks to verify why the meeting did not hold.

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs held a press conference on Friday 12th April 2024 confirming that the National Debt increased to D110.6 billion. This confirms that a claim made earlier in 2024 by the leader of the country’s biggest opposition party, Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party, that Gambia’s debt has increased under the Barrow administration.

The Gambia’s Medicines Control Agency shut down one of The Gambia’s prominent pharmaceutical companies Innovarx Global Health on 2nd February 2024.

The Acute Kidney Injury court case where 19 bereaved parents are seeking redress from the Gambia Government was adjourned to the end of January 2024 to allow for Indian company Maiden Pharmaceuticals to be served.

After months of sitting on the Acute Kidney Injury Investigation Report, the Ministry of Health finally published the report which culminated in the firing of the Medicines Control Agency Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director last Friday 21st July 2023. However, they are not the only MCA Staff exposed in the report for serious conflict of interest.