Gambia

Research two decades ago showed that malaria infection in pregnant Gambian women increased the health risks for mother and baby. A new study by the Medical Research Council Laboratories in Fajara shows that the situation has not improved. Why have policy-makers failed to implement strategies to protect pregnant women?

Women are 75 times more likely to die as a result of pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa than in developed regions. Reducing maternal mortality is therefore high on the international health agenda. But how effective are current efforts to improve maternal health in developing countries?

The French Technical Assistance, represented in The Gambia by Le project d'Appui pour la diffusion et l'Emseignement du François, known as PADEF, last week donated a brand new computer, with a French keyboard and a UPS to The Independent to aid its weekly French publication.

There has been an intellectual row over the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) by African NGOs participating at the NGO Forum preceding the 32nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights at the Kairaba Beach Hotel. NGOs from all over the continent participating at the forum have strongly expressed mixed feelings over the way the new African development initiative was being driven by African heads of states. Many believed that the initiative had not ...read more

Despite international outcry, The Gambia has become the first country in Africa to sign an agreement with the United States, which ensures that Americans are exempted from International Criminal Court prosecution over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

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