Africa, World

Despite high global food prices, conflict in the north and the onset of the lean season which lasts from July to September, the food security...

The Western Sudanese region of Darfur was once an important contributor to the global economy. Cattle, gum arabic, tobacco and manufactured goods...

In the aftermath of the xenophobic violence that erupted in South Africa in May, the "reintegration" of displaced people into their communities...

By 2009, NAWEC’s electricity tariff will be drastically reduced for customers with a special concession to industries operating in The Gambia. This...

Reliable reports reaching the Daily Observer, indicate that Private Lamin Jarjue, a member of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), on Friday evening,...

At the invitation of the West African Insurance Institute, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone will arrive at the Banjul International...

John Wilcox, vice chairman of the governing council of the West African Insurance Institute, accompanied by officials of the  institute, yesterday,...

A number of members of the National Assembly and other stakeholders descended at the Jerma Beach Hotel yesterday for a two-day seminar on the Ecowas...

Richard Shih, the Taiwanese ambassador to The Gambia, yesterday, paid a courtesy call on Mrs Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, the managing director the Observer...

A heavy flood has unleashed havoc at Burmang Vilage in Foni Jarrol, Western Region, leaving at least six families without a home. The families of...