Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) personnel attends 4 days Training of Trainers (TOT ) on International Humanitarian Law (IHL). This important event is being held at the Joint Officers Mess in Kotu. The training is offered by the International committee of the Red Cross. At the opening ceremony,the representative of the Chief of Defence Staff Commodore […]
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The Gambia Navy in collaboration with the fisheries inspectors from the department of fisheries of The Gambia arrested 3 Chinese fishing vessels on the 21st and 22nd of September 2018 respectively. The vessels were arrested while a joint Sub-Regional Fisheries operation was going on between Senegal, Guinea Bissau and The Gambia in the three countries […]
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The Gambia Navy mounts a gruling 3 hours brought-to-shore 72 illegal migrants as part of a rescue mission on Sunday 23 September 2018. The cohort of young men rescued consist of Gambians and Senegalese. The preliminary reports indicated there were 40 Gambians and 32 Senegalese. The group of young men are said to have started […]
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The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) received military items from the Turkish Government through its Embassy in Banjul on Monday 24 September 2018. The ceremony was held at the Defence Headquarters graced by His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador. The Deputy Chief of Defence Staff Gambia Armed Forces, Major Gen Yankuba A Drammeh was deputizing for the Chief […]
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The Gambia Navy intercepted a boat carrying suspected cannabis sativa whilst on routine security patrol in and about Jakoi general area . The trafficker/s abandoned their boat as the patrol team approached them. On boarding the abandon boat and conducting a search the patrol team found 4 bags of cannabis sativa. The boat was taken […]
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