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News Gambia » People: The Gambia Adopts First National Dementia Plan, Marking a Milestone for Africa

News channel or source: https://www.afro.who.int/countries/the-gambia/news/gambia-adopts-first-national-dementia-plan-marking-milestone-africa
Published on: Sunday 18 October 2026

The Gambia has validated and adopted its first National Dementia Plan 2027-2031, the first of its kind in the WHO African Region, marking a significant step towards strengthening prevention, early ...

News Gambia » People: Gambia's bid to unban FGM divides families and parliament

News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/gambias-bid-unban-fgm-divides-100501715.html
Published on: Friday 12 July 2024

BANJUL (Reuters) - For Mariama Jarjou, taking her two daughters to a traditional circumciser when they were 5 and 4 was an act of love - a painful but important ritual that would give them status in ...

News Gambia » People: Some 45,000 people have fled uncertainty in Gambia as tension mounts

News channel or source: https://www.unhcr.org/us/news/some-45-000-people-have-fled-uncertainty-gambia-tension-mounts
Published on: Thursday 19 January 2017

DAKAR, Senegal – Thousands of people have fled to Senegal from The Gambia, where last-minute talks are taking place to persuade the incumbent President to leave office following an election defeat.

News Gambia » People: Gambia: Project Gambia People Feeding People Boosts St. John's School With Food Items

News channel or source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201311080748.html
Published on: Thursday 07 November 2013

Frank Devine and Paul Lafferty, members of Project Gambia People Feeding People-Scotland, on 6 November 2013 boosted St. John's Basic School for the Deaf with food and non-food items. They donated to ...

News Gambia » People: Gambia: 'People With Disability Are Capable of Contributing to Development'

News channel or source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201507151687.html
Published on: Wednesday 15 July 2015

Ebrima Dibasey, director of the Gambia Federation of the Disabled, said the situation of people with disability is delicate because some issues affecting them are always set aside. This is ...

News Gambia » People: « 100 Years – 100 Lives » | THE GAMBIA - “People with disabilities should have equal opportunities to work and contribute to society”

News channel or source: https://www.ilo.org/resource/article/%C2%AB-100-years-%E2%80%93-100-lives-%C2%BB-gambia-%E2%80%9Cpeople-disabilities-should-have-equal
Published on: Wednesday 09 October 2019

Bird-watching has been one of the many attractions offered to tourists in The Gambia. The resort of Kotu is one of the most popular destinations for holiday makers in the country. Nearly 600 species ...