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On 14 December 2004, the Gambia passed two new media laws. One, the Criminal Code (Amendment) Bill 2004, allowed prison terms for defamation and sedition; the other, the Newspaper (Amendment) Bill 2004, required newspaper owners to purchase expensive operating licenses, registering their homes as security.
In the 2016 presidential elections, Adama Barrow defeated the incumbent Yahya Jammeh who had been in power for over 20 years. Jammeh acknowledged defeat but then subsequently refused to step down, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
The Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center Enterior. Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center is a 14,000-square-metre (150,000 sq ft) conference center in The Gambia, located in Kombo North/Saint Mary. [1]
Locally known as “Nawettan” (This word is derived from the Wolof tongue, one of several local languages, and means seasonal tournament). It is the third-highest competition in the country's national football rankings and is divided into eight mini-leagues of twenty teams each in different zones, of which all league champions from the different Local Governing Bodies (LGB) are contested in ...
The coeducational Gambia Scout Association has 18,448 members as of 2008. [1]Special activities include community service projects such as tree planting.
Fatou Jeng was born on September 30, 1996 in Banjul in The Gambia. [2] She studied at the University of the Gambia, and was the first female president of the university's student union.
Gai, whose popular nickname is "Daddy", began his career in 1997 in the youth setup of his hometown team, Bakau United.He made his debut for the first team in 2005, and played in the Gambian Championnat National D1 for four seasons. [1]
Real de Banjul was founded in the 1966–67 season after a group of secondary schoolboys international team returned from a trip to Thiès in Senegal and named it as Benson and Hedges FC.