Belgian Friends of The Gambia, an international organisation, donated to 47 sponsored students attending the Nyodema Kindergarten and Bakoteh Annex Lower Basic School 33 50kg bags of rice, educational, health and agricultural items

The National Water and Electronic Company, with funding from the World Bank, laid the foundation stone of a $66 million electricity project called ECOREAP, which will electrify over 298 communities

A warning to the public regarding illegal land sales and transactions within the Koto Balli Community Forest has been jointly issued by the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources and the one of Lands and Regional Government Affairs

ChildFund Gambia donated 1.000 solar lamps and two 40-foot containers loaded with additional textbooks to the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education for later distribution to schools throughout the region

The plan to lift the ban on female genital mutilation in The Gambia, which outlawed the practice in 2015, risks setting a "dangerous precedent," UN representatives have warned