The Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Masanneh N Kinteh on Tuesday 1 May 2018 bade farewell to the first batch of the New Presidential Guards comprising 150 GAF personnel (including 21 females) who were leaving for Dakar, Senegal to undergo further training. The contingent, which also includes thirty-five (35) members of the Police Intervention […]
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A total of eighty-five personnel of The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) on Friday 20 April 2018 returned from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after completing a month long multinational exercise dubbed “Gulf Shied 1” that was meant to prepare troops in the fight against terrorism in the world. More than 23 counties participated in the […]
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The Chief of Defence Staff of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), Lieutenant General Masanneh Kinteh has described ties with the Senegalese Armed Forces as strong while noting that both sides are working tirelessly to ensure that they are able to work out some of the bilateral areas they committed themselves to. Lt. Gen. Kinteh was […]
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A total of twenty-six (26) participants of Course 40 from the Nigerian Armed Forces Command and Staff College (NAFCSC) Jaji, Nigeria are currently in The Gambia on a week-long regional study tour. The theme of the study tour is “Agricultural Development and National Security” and tours like these fall within the regional studies module of […]
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Following approval by the Gambia Armed Forces High command, The Gambia Navy participated in a maritime operations exercise code-named the “OBANGAME Express 2018” from Monday 19 to Tuesday 27 March 2018. The aim of the Exercise was to train and assess the capability of African Navies in maritime interdiction operations. The week long exercise, which […]
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