The British High Commissioner to The Gambia, His Excellency David Belgrove OBE on Tuesday 13 October 2020 paid a courtesy call on the Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Yakuba A Drammeh at the Defence Headquarters in Banjul. The purpose of the visit to the CDS was to introduce himself after assuming office as the […]
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The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) wishes to kindly inform the general public that its current contingent serving under the United Nations Mandate as Peacekeepers will end their Tour of Duty. In this vein, a new Gambian contingent will leave for Darfur in two batches. The rotation will be on the 2nd and 23rd September 2020 […]
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The Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Yakuba A Drammeh continued his engagements with strategic partners on Tuesday 21 July 2020 with a courtesy call on the Chinese Ambassador to The Gambia, His Excellency Ma Jianchun at the Chinese embassy in Bijilo. The CDS was accompanied by the Director of Logistics, Navy Captain Dembo Jarju, […]
Read MoreThe Gambia Armed Forces, at the request of civil authority, is deploying troops to Kerr Pateh village in the North Bank region following a spate of armed robberies in the community. Readers may recall that during the month of June this year, the village came under a violent armed attack by some criminals and a […]
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The Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Yakuba Drammeh on Wednesday 15 July 2020 paid a courtesy call on the United States Ambassador to The Gambia, His Excellency Richard Carlton Paschall at his residence in Fajara. The visit is a continuation of the Chief of Defence Staff’s engagement with strategic partners of the Armed Forces […]
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