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 €29.000 women's community garden in the village of Boraba, 300 kilometres from Banjul, has been inaugurated by the German ambassador to The Gambia

A $1,34 million soil fertility mapping project was launched by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Security with the support of the Islamic Development Bank

The Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital hosted a breast and cervical cancer screening event supported by China Medical Team, WHO, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, the Gambian National Cancer Control Programme and the Banjul Municipality

The 81st regular session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights officially opened in Banjul with representatives of member states, civil society organisations and human rights advocates