Gambia| Last Updated 02/09/2010 21:16:00
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 | Gambiaâ?s economic growth to ease slightly in 2010 | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambiaâ?s economy is projected to grow by 5.0 per cent
in 2010, compared to 5.6 per cent in 2009, despite the effects of the global eco
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omic crisis on the service and manufacturing sectors, wholesale and retail trade
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Momodou Bamba Saho, Governor of the Central Bank of the Gambia, said on Thursda
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| Gambians mark African Traditional Medicine Day | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Traditional medical practitioners in Gambia Tuesday mark
ed the African Traditional Medicine Day, the day set aside by the World Health O
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ganization (WHO) and the African governments for the commemoration of African tr
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ditional medicine.
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| US sues Gambia over rights records | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The American Congress has received a bill calling for th
e suspension of financial help to the Gambian government for failing to improve
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n its rights records, PANA reported from here Tuesday.
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| Guinea's Foreign minister calls on President Jammeh | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Guinea's Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integrat
ion and Francophonie, Bakary Fofana, on Monday delivered a special message
from the country's interim leader, General Saikouba Conateh, to Gambian
President Yahya Jammeh at State House in Banjul.
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| Gambia seals energy deal with Malaysian Company | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Gambian government has signed an energy agreement wi
th a Malaysian Company (Clearlink) under which it would be provided with adequat
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power generation, transmission and distribution, PANA reported Saturday.
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| Gambia to 'streamline' activities of NGOs | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - A Bill to 'streamline' the activities of Non-Governmenta
l Organisations (NGOs) in The Gambia is currently
being finalised, according to the country's Minister of Interior and NGO Affairs
, Mr. Ousman Sonko.
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| Gambian President cuts fish, meat prices for Ramadan | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has announced a reducti
on in the prices of meat and fish in recognition of the Moslem holy month of Ram
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dan (fasting period) across the tiny West African nation, PANA reported from her
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Sunday.
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| Gambia's livestock agency says meat shortage over | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Demba Jallow, the Director General of Gambia Livestock M
arketing Agency, on Friday said the acute meat shortage that hit the tiny West A
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rican nation was coming to an end with the combined efforts of his agency and cr
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dit facilities from a private bank, PANA reported from here.
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| Gambia validates guidelines on maternal health | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambia's Health and Social Welfare Department has valida
ted guidelines on maternal care which is a blueprint on ways and means of fast t
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acking efforts of reducing maternal mortality by 75% in the West African nation
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efore 2015, PANA reported from here Friday.
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| Gambian govt. discusses sugar price with stakeholders | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian government, through the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Regional Integration, and the Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has struck a negotiation with the major importers of sugar into the country, to ensure the availability and affordability of the commodity, especially during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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| Gambia launches 1-million, tree-planting exercise | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Following the rapid degradation of Forest resources in The Gambia, timber dealers have been called upon to replace any tree cut by planting a new one, the country's Director of Forestry, Abdoulie Sanneh, has ordered.
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| Gambian opposition launches new campaign to effect political change | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambian opposition party, Peopleâ?s Democratic for Inde
pendence and Socialism (PDOIS), has launched a new strategy, dubbed "Agenda 2011
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- a blueprint geared towards effecting change through the ballot box in the wes
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African nation as the nation prepares for presidential polls, PANA reported Mon
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ay.
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| Swine Flu vaccination campaign targets 10% of Gambians | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The country representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in The Gambia, Dr. Thomas Sukwa, said the vaccination campaign for the Swine Flu, A(H1N1), though not yet reported in the country, targets only 10 per cent of the nation's population, PANA reported from here Wednesday.
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| Gambian opposition leader carpets Jammeh | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambian opposition leader, Halifa Sallah, on
Monday sharply reacted to President Yahya Jammeh's assertion that
"neither coup nor elections" could remove him from power, saying Jammeh's
remarks were "alien to the constitution" of the West African nation, PANA
reported from here.
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| AI demands release of prisoners in Gambia | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Global rights body Amnesty International (AI) has called
for an end to alleged ''arbitrary
arrests, unfair trials, and torture'' in the Gambia and urged the country's auth
orities to ensure immediate and
unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience detained solely for peacefu
lly exercising their basic human
rights, PANA reported from here Monday.
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