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Summary: In February 2014, there was an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, which spread to Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone, and most recently Mali, causing untold...
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Preliminary forecast for the 2014 harvest points to a large decline in cereal production Access to food continues to be constrained by high food prices Humanitarian assistance...
BANJUL (7 November 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteurs Christof Heyns and Juan Méndez have been prevented from completing a torture and killing investigation during the first visit ever to...
Gambia has again demonstrated its blatant disregard for human rights by stopping a UN team from investigating allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings in the country, Amnesty International...
KEY DRIVERS OF THE CRISIS Frequent extreme weather events (droughts, floods). Lack of proper irrigation and poor land use practices leading to low productivity Lack of integrated Early Warning...
GENEVA (30 October 2014) – Two United Nations Special Rapporteurs will carry out the first official visit ever to the Gambia by experts of the Human Rights Council Special Procedures*. The UN Special...
Gambia must heed UN warning to improve its human rights record The Gambian authorities must heed a warning from the international community about the deteriorating human rights situation in the...
On June 24 2014, The Gambia Red Cross and the National Disaster Management Agency of The Gambia together with IFRC held a disaster law workshop in Banjul aiming at supporting the government-initiated...
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Misha Hussain DAKAR, Oct 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pestilence, cyclical droughts and floods, and the West Africa Ebola crisis have pushed hunger to record levels in Gambia, where 200,000...
Dakar, 30 September 2014: A few weeks ahead of the harvest, the Gambian government, UN agencies and donors met in Dakar to review the humanitarian situation in The Gambia. “The rainy season started...
The United Nations Development Programme in The Gambia conducts a Development Forum on topical issues. These fora have served as a platform to discuss, share information and debate thematic issues...
BANJUL – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of €400, 000 (US$520, 000) from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO) to...
SUMMARY Strategic objectives Track and analyse risk and vulnerability, integrating findings into humanitarian and development programming. Support vulnerable populations to better cope with shocks by...
A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster A fast-spreading outbreak of Ebola virus disease is affecting several countries in West Africa. The Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea since February...
12 August 2014 – The Gambia postponed a visit at the last minute by two United Nations independent experts, a move they find “extremely worrying” and which casts doubt on the West African country’s...
Banjul, 25 July 2014: The United Nations Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, Robert Piper, completed a visit to The Gambia, where he met senior Government officials, the humanitarian and...
Introduction À l’heure où le gouvernement du Président Yahya Jammeh célèbre, le 22 juillet 2014, ses 20 années au pouvoir en Gambie, Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19 et la Rencontre Africaine...
By Misha Hussain DAKAR, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gambia has taken steps to improve its poor human-rights record after the European Union suspended 150 million euros in development aid...
The Gambia: Activists mark 20 years of iron fisted repression The Gambian government must abolish the laws and iron fisted practices that have resulted in two decades of widespread human rights...