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An ongoing nationwide strike by commercial drivers in The Gambia has all but paralysed traffic for thousands of people who depend on them to commute in and around the country’s urban townships, APA can report from Banjul on Wednesday.

A series of deaths involving children in The Gambia has prompted an investigation by health officials about their possible link to the intake of a paracetamol syrup, APA learnt on Thursday.

Gambia’s youthful sports minister has been caught up in an explosive row over foreign trips allowances after it emerged that he and his wife had been paid thousands of pounds while attending the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England and the Islamic Solidarity Games in Turkey earlier this month.

The Green Climate Fund has cleared $60 million in funding to support climate-resilient initiatives designed to change lives in two of West Africa’s smallest nations – The Gambia and Benin.

Renewable energy accounts for 52.4 percent of actual total consumption in The Gambia, a country that has witnessed a historic turning point in its energy poor trajectory.

There was a time in the recent past when The Gambia and Equatorial Guinea were never mentioned in the same breath but all that changed in the aftermath of the post-electoral dispute in 2016 which triggered a political crisis in mainland Africa’s smallest country.

Gambians have been left familiarizing themselves with a newly minted cabinet since its members were named by President Adama Barrow on Wednesday.

There has been a low voter turnout as Gambians head out to cast their ballot in national assembly elections on Saturday, the first since a historic presidential vote saw incumbent Adama Barrow returned to power last December.

Internally Displaced Persons from southern Senegal have been finding their way into neighbouring Gambia following skirmishes between Senegalese forces and Casamance rebels on Sunday.

As The Gambia joins the rest of the world to mark International Women’s Day on March 8, local feminists have been up in arms against an imam who made a controversial comment about female judges of the shariah court.