The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) on Wednesday 30 September 2020 held a decoration ceremony for promoted officers at the Joint Officers Mess in Kotu. This auspicious occasion marked an important moment in the career of the promoted officers. You may recall earlier last year precisely in June, 67 officers were promoted to various ranks within […]
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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 (CDS), Major General Yakuba Abdourahman Drammeh has called for closer collaboration and synergy of efforts among stakeholders in the maritime domain to enable the Gambia Navy adequately secure the country’s maritime resources. The CDS was speaking at a historic meeting with the management of the Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) on […]
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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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