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GIRL POWER! Meet The Gambia’s newest young female civil engineers

They were among the Gambian students that graduated on Sunday, 5th June at the National Taipei University of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.

Sainabou Ndure, Yafatou Sanneh and Sarata Jaiteh are heading to The Gambia soon to work in a field dominated by men.

Most of their friends

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The Gambia, we consume everything, produce nothing: A creative society – not an inventive one

For our brief history, as a country, we have been dealt a very heavy hand in the arena of resources – except for the people and bodies of water, which, if used properly or harnessed, could be the greatest resources, ever. With regard to the people, we are not cultivating

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Jainaba Chune set to give back with The Projects

In five months’ time, Jainaba Chune, 23, will graduate with a BA in Business Studies from the London School of Commerce.  This is a dream come true for a not-so privileged young lady who was born and raised in The Gambia.  She’s now set out to give back to others

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How daughter of D248m lottery winner ditched Islam for Christianity

He was all over in the news last week. Amadou Gillen hit the jackpot, winning 248 million dalasis on a lottery scratch card in England. But there are some interesting details about his Gambian family that reporters in England have missed.

What’s On-Gambiahas confirmed from reliable sources that the new

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Abaraka! British man cycled 400km to raise money for Gambian children

A selfless British man, Robert Coulter, has just completed a 400km fundraising cycling to support the education of Gambian children.

The 37-year-old, who was in The Gambia in March 2016 on holiday, has raised more than £1000 and the amount is still rising.

His efforts have touched the hearts of

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The soldier who ran away to pursue uncertain fortunes in Europe

He was a soldier with the Gambia Armed Forces. But when Ebrima Jallow noticed that his monthly salary would never bring significant changes in his life, he packed some of his belongings and left for Europe through the ‘back way’.

The back-way was until recently a choice for the unemployed

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Newest wag in town! Anna Manneh is footballer Steve Trawally’s ‘queen’

For Anna Manneh, if not Sweden, then China.  After a failed attempt to tie the knot with a Stockholm-based semester, Anna is now dating footballer, Steve Trawally who’s playing his professional football in China.

The model, unsurprisingly, has been giving away sufficient hints of her new romance on social

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