Inadequate vegetable seeds, water, insecticides, garden materials, storage facilities, a competitive market, as well as a good fence is causing a lot of damages in the agricultural sector and indeed hindering good harvest in all farming and gardening activities.
One out of such examples is the Bakau women’s horticultural garden.
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Villagers in Gambia failed to win state funding for their project, and once they have built their road it will be named after the Raasay crofter, who died in 1988.
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A toddler who underwent a series of operations to improve her hearing is facing a lifetime of total deafness after the Home Office refused her family permission to stay in the UK. Fatima Chaw’s hearing was damaged when she contracted meningitis a few weeks after she was born in Crawley, south London.
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Bakau Lower Basic School, on Friday, organised a musical fund raising show with the famous DJ Lamin Cham, of the Champion Sound system at the Bakau Lower Basic school ground.
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The First Lady Madam Zineb Yahya Jammeh has launched the Unicef State of the World
’s Children Report 2008 on behalf of President Jammeh, at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Hotel in Brufut heights. The theme for this year’s launch is “Child Survival”.
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Noble initiatives are distinguishable not only by how they are conceived or who conceived them, but also for what they are conceived for. In other words, the choices of societal problems such initiatives are set to tackle tell them apart from those that aim at merely solving individual concerns.
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Night falls quickly in Africa. Under a half-moon and partly cloudy sky, a single kerosene lantern silhouetted the contestants against the blackened backdrop.
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SHANGHAI — A spike in the price of rice and other food staples is triggering consumer panic, including food riots in Yemen and Morocco, and hoarding in Hong Kong.
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The rural water project initiative, which resulted from the long-term bilateral co-operation between the governments of the Gambia and Japan, has been taking pace in the rural areas, especially in areas around of the Lower River Region, most notably, in the Districts of Kiang.
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A new bilateral air service agreement between South Africa and The Gambia was on Thursday, signed at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, Kololi.
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