The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) celebrates yet again its International Migrants Day; Global Migration Film Festival by bringing stories of migration to the silver screen. IOM Gambia are amongst 100 countries showing films that capture the promise and challenges of migration around the world. This year's festival will take at the Kairaba Hotel on Monday 18th December 2017.
The Ministry of Justice, in collaboration with the Gambia Bar Association, is organizing a two-day National Conference for Gambian Lawyers; "Strengthening Constitutionality and the Rule of Law in The Gambia" from the 20-21 December 2017. As part of its wider effort to promote and create a climate of respect for the rule of law and constitutionality in the Gambia; a …
Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations
COMMIT Building, Kotu Highway, Kotu, Gambia
SANXAANU KAGGORO FILM KAFFO (SANXAAFI) presents the 3rd CineKambiya International Film Festival (CIFF). This year’s focus is centred on ‘The Rights to Truth in Transitional Justice’. The urban screenings starts on Monday 25th December 2017 at the Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations in Kotu and ends on the 30th December 2017. Baddibu …
Gambia Coral Beach Hotel & Spa
Brufut Heights, AU Highway, Serrekunda, Gambia
CORAL BEACH HOTEL – THE GAMBIA 27th and 28th December 2017 TAF Africa Global hosts its third annual networking event in The Gambia as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy which was launched at the Madiba Mall in December 2015. This year’s event themed “Opportunities and Challenges in the New Gambia: An Entrepreneurship Perspective”, aims to …
Thursday 28th December 2017 is the start of the Gambia Diaspora Festival,; one of the many events taking place in the Gambia to celebrate a year in which Gambians in the diaspora were free to return to their homeland and enjoy living under a democratic rule of law. The 4-day event will finish on Sunday 31st December 2017 at the Independence Stadium with …
As the Gambia celebrates the month designated for the Diaspora, we also dedicated a few days to remember all the Heroes who risked their lives to liberate the country of Yaya Jammeh’s tyrannical administration. The homecoming event starts on Friday 29th December 2017 with Jumma Prayers at the Kanifing Mosques, welcome the Heroes is on 30th Dec, meeting the victims on 6th Jan and finally finishes with Prayer services …
The Gambia University Law Faculty
Kanifing South, Greater Banjul, Banjul, Gambia
After years of persistence and determination to engage and sensitize Gambian youth on issues of restoring democracy in the Gambia through the use of both conventional and social media, the Democratic Union of Gambian Activists is finally launching the organisation in the Gambia on Wednesday 3rd January 2018 from 4:00 PM- 8:00 PM at The Gambia University Law Faculty, Kanifing. The event will …
MBOKA TAKES PLACE FROM 6-21 Jan in The Gambia The Mboka Festival opens at Manduar Creative hub with a cultural extravaganza followed by a travel symposium organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and the Kai Youth Conference. Other events include the Global hands' Academic conference; Questioning the Logic of the System at Manduar Creative Hub on the 12-13 January 2018.
The two-day meeting organised by Hon Badara Joof, the Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology will bring together a taskforce on higher education - mainly composed of Gambian scholars and academics both home and in the diaspora - who through the initiatives of Professors Abdoulaye Saine and Michael Ba Banutu-Gomez, will be aiming to chart a future for quality education in The Gambia.
On Friday the 12th January 2018, Global Hands in Collaboration with De Montfort University will host; Questioning the “Logic of the System”: Generating Counter Development Narratives for Emerging Countries. The one-day conference as part of the Mboka Festival 2018, will bring together 80 scholars, academics, policy makers, practitioners and students, to critically examine narratives and counter-narratives to development, with the following objectives of amplifying missing Southern …