The Gambia held a big party for teachers at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center. This party gave prizes to teachers who helped students learn well. The Namie Foundation and the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education planned this special event together.
Ms. Angelic...
Six-year-old Sainabou Bah has a special condition. Her head grew very big when she was just a baby. This makes life hard for her and her mom, Haddy Jobe.
Sainabou cannot walk by herself because her head is too heavy for her legs. Her mom must carry her everywhere. When mom feels tired, Sainabou...
Mr. Abdullah Al Fahim from Bangladesh shared four helpful computer tools with people in The Gambia. He talked at a special meeting on February 24 at Metzy Hotel in Kololi.
The first tool is called eApostille. This helps make important papers real and trusted. Students and workers can use it...
The Social Health Authority has collected 20.9 billion shillings since it started last October. The Ministry of Health shared this news. The authority paid money to public and private hospitals.
The authority paid 18.2 billion shillings in total, 16.97 billion for SHIF claims, and 1.33 billion...
A plane crash happened in Sudan yesterday. The plane fell in a place called Omdurman, which is next to the main city of Khartoum. Forty-six people died, and ten people were hurt when this happened.
The plane was a big Russian-made airplane called an Antonov. It crashed right after it took off...
Doctors in Nairobi will stop working starting Thursday at midnight. The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union told people about this on Wednesday. The doctors feel upset because the city has stopped paying them, fired some doctors, and often pays them late.
These doctors want the city...
People from the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service are working hard to stop fires in two big forests, Aberdare and Mt Kenya.
The fires started in different places and are spreading very fast. Lucy Mwati, who helps take care of mountains in Kenya, said teams are fighting a fire in...
President William Ruto spoke at a building project in Kilifi County. He made big promises to the people who live near the ocean in Kenya.
"The Coast area has been left behind for many years," President Ruto said. He thinks people there have been treated badly and forgotten. "This is the...
Health leader Deborah Barasa has told private hospitals that the government will pay the big 30 billion shilling debt they owe.
She knows police officers and teachers can't visit these hospitals, so Barasa and her team at the Social Health Authority have met to devise a plan for paying the...
A police officer has a gunshot wound in his leg. His friend, another police officer, shot him. This happened on Tuesday night near a house in Nairobi. The house belongs to someone important named President Salva Kiir.
Two police officers were walking around the area. They saw a man smoking...
Mr. Aaron Cheruiyot is upset with some important health workers. He says Ms. Debra Barasa and her helpers, Harry Kimtai and Mary Muthoni, did not attend big health meetings, which discuss rules that help people in small towns.
Mr. Cheruiyot asked, "Why didn't they come to our meeting in...
Pope Francis felt tired last night, but he had a good sleep. The church office says his health is still very serious but not changing much. His breathing problems didn't get worse.
Pope Francis sat in his chair when he woke up today. He continues to perform the same breathing treatments. We...
Four hundred old special places in Kenya might disappear because nobody takes care of them. Ms. Ummi Bashir told people who make rules that they need money to fix these places.
Ms. Bashir talked to a group at the National Assembly. She said important people like Mambo Mbotela did not receive...
Lamin Jassey is the top helper at The Gambia Football Group. The big football group for all of Africa picked him to teach other helpers like him.
This teaching program wants to improve the jobs of all the main helpers in football groups. By working together, they will learn from each other. Mr...
Ecowas finds it hard to make its member countries follow the rules. More leaders are not doing what this group of 15 West African nations wants.
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger call themselves the Alliance of Sahel States. They try very hard to leave Ecowas. Guinea has army leaders who take a...
A police worker named Binta Njie was called to meet her bosses yesterday. They wanted to discuss something she wrote on Facebook. Ms. Njie used to speak for the police. She comes from Kiang.
A man named Baboucarr Bahoum said mean things about the people of Kiang after his party lost a vote...
The old president of Gambia, Yaya Jammeh, talked about Mr. Bakary Badjie. He doesn't want Mr. Badjie to run for president in 2026.
Mr. Badjie is one of five special lawmakers from Foni. These lawmakers belong to a group that likes Mr. Jammeh. Last week, Mr. Badjie said he wanted to become...
A report from the Institute of Security Studies says Ecowas should ask the United Nations and African Union to help Gambia make a new set of rules for the country.
"Ecowas, the African Union, and the UN helped start making Gambia stable in 2017. They need to help Gambia create a new...
As Ramadan approaches, the Abubakary Jawara Foundation has started giving food to people who need help. Mr. Abubakary Jawara runs this foundation and owns GACH Global Company. This year, they will share food worth more than D9.6 million. They plan to give away 7000 bags of rice and 2000 bags of...
The mayor of Banjul, Rohey Malick Lowe, won a special award. The Young Africans Network for Global Goals gave her this prize because she helps women and young people a lot.
Mayor Lowe works hard to make women stronger in her community. She wants everyone to have the same chances in life. The...
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