Africa, World

Following the presentation of the 2008 Appropriation Bill (Budget Speech) before members of the National Assembly last Friday by the Secretary of...

The troubles of Mr. Willy Joof, former Permanent Secretary at the Department of State for Foreign Affairs who earlier served in The Gambia’s...

In her bright orange clothing, South African Riana Jacobs, 31, stands out from the crowd at the recent International Consultation on Islam and...

Residents of Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo, are harvesting welcome rainwater from their roofs after consistently low rainfall in the past few...

A World Bank funded study shows that increased air pollution caused by motorbikes and dust is causing some 200 new cancer cases in the Burkina Faso...

Ugandan health officials said they had an outbreak of a rare Ebola strain under control in their country but expressed concerns that the disease...

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) will hold the Fourth Africa-Asia Business Forum (AABF IV), a face-to-face business...

Dependable sources to The Point have revealed that European Investment Bank (EIB) and ECOBANK Transnational Incorporated (ETI) yesterday signed a...

What a good year? It’s year of much highs and few lows for the Gambia’s emerging diva, Nancy Nanz. After releasing several singles that were...

With few days to go before the annual Eid-ul-Adha, locally known as Tobaski, the Muslim-dominated Gambian society is already astir with the...