TENDABA, GAMBIA — If Kunta Kinte could see the Gambia River, he wouldn’t believe it. Picture a white yacht flying a blue and white Greek flag. Sitting on the deck are 25 people having lunch, a little ...

"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffere, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte." - Roots, Alex Haley TENDABA, ...

Jason Florio’s travels around the Republic of the Gambia read like tales of adventure from centuries past. Florio, along with his wife, Helen Jones-Florio, had already traveled extensively in the West ...

The presidents of Senegal and The Gambia on Monday inaugurated the Senegambia bridge to facilitate trade and travel in West Africa after decades of delays. The bridge located on Gambian territory is ...

Marios Contopoulos, an MSc Business Analytics student at Esade Business School, tests water salinity near the University of The Gambia. With each step, the Esade business student and a Gambian bird ...

The House of Slaves museum and memorial site on Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. The building was the largest slave-trade center during the transatlantic slave trade and now serves as a ...

When the Lady Chilel listed to port in 1984, her Glaswegian hull groaning with the realisation she faced a tropical watery grave, West Africa’s most navigable waterway became a backwater, the sole ...

The Gambia is free at last of Yahya Jammeh. Newly elected President Adama Barrow must now take bold steps to restore Gambia's place as a responsible West African nation, with special emphasis on ...

In Jarra Madina, a small farming community in The Gambia's Lower River Region, life once revolved around a daily struggle for water. Women and girls would set out at dawn, walking up to five ...

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