Controversy erupted after one of the contestants at the country's recent beauty contest showed up wearing the typical costume of the kankurang, an initiation rite considered a Unesco World Heritage Site, but linked to male circumcision ceremonies

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

Food supplies are enough to cover the month of Ramadan and even beyond - Minister of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof said