Reports

Highlights As of 09 September, nearly 23,000 people were affected by floods and windstorms. Almost 20% of the affected population were displaced (3,857 people) while 10 people were reported to have died. Moreover, the number of people…

Summary: CHF 119,220 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 12 January, 2012 to support the Gambia Red Cross Society in delivering assistance to some 30,000 persons travelling in and out of…

BANJUL – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) received a donation of 5,000 metric tons of rice from the Government of Brazil towards its emergency operations in the Gambia. This donation will provide vital food and nutritional…

DAKAR, 20 September 2012 (IRIN) - Public, forceful international pressure on Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to halt ongoing executions of death row prisoners was successful - at least temporarily - leading activists to call for governments,…

Highlights The community screening of children has led to the identification and admission of 960 children to the management of SAM program. UNICEF is providing RUTF to the outpatient therapeutic program sites. The CO has developed a plan…

By Saloum Sheriff Janko BANJUL, Aug 24 2012 (IPS) - Mohamed Ceesay, a 20-year-old farmer from the Central River Region in the Gambia, is a high school dropout. But thanks to an initiative to discourage local youths…

Gambia is in the grip of a food crisis and so our Activista network there has leapt into action to support people living in the worst hit areas. Our guest blogger and Activista, Awa, travelled to a…

Executive Summary A. Introduction Between 09 to 13 July 2012, 36 frontline staff from 26 organisations; Women’s Groups, Youth Groups, administrative government departments (Agriculture, Forestry, Community Development, Education, Water Resources, Livestock, Health, Area Council), National Red Cross Society…

Highlights: Humanitarian response to recent crop failure emergency has commenced in April 2012 and is targeting at least 206,000 people in 19 most affected districts through provision of food, seeds, horticulture inputs, fertilizer, livestock vaccination, drugs and…

At Besse in the Foni Berefet District, West Coast Region, WFP and partners launched the first Supplementary Feeding Programme to prevent acute malnutrition in children under the age of five. BANJUL – WFP and partners launched for…