Rural Women’s Day: What Has Road Network Got To Do With Women’s Rights?

As an advocate of women’s empowerment and to fulfil the calling of my profession I thought the only thing I can do is to inform those in position of power and authority through this article that we all owe it to women’s right to health and economic empowerment to construct the minimum standard of road networks in rural Gambia.

Dear Editor

Traveling to one of the remote areas of The Gambia, Wuli East with a GAMCOTRAP team to undertake a training supported by UNFPA has turned out to be a journey of reflection.
In an attempt to get on the best available road, we drove from Basse to Fatoto Ferry crossing just to realise that the ferry has not been in service for a month; the hand pulled ferry was stocked in the middle of the river.
We drove back for another 45 minutes to cross from Basse to Wuli.  We arrived just in time for the ferry to quickly cross over to the other side of the river bank.     A two hours journey started to go to Briffu in Wuli East.

Veteran Journalist Takes ‘the Bull by the Horn’

NEWS BANJUL THE GAMBIA (MB)- The oldest practicing Gambian journalist Mr Swaebou Conateh on Wednesday took the bull by its horn demanded president Jammeh’s government to implement certain programmes in order to make more satisfactory and systematic progress on what, he said, is now a vexed question.

Mr Conateh , publisher/editor of The Gambia News & Report weekly magazine who make made this remark on Wednesdya during a meeting with the president said  his demands are already in existence in most countries.