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Gunjur Online
- Nov 18
- 1 min
New Walk4Health initiative gathers momentum in Gunjur
Dubbed “Healthy & Strong, the second session of the weekly “Walk 4 Health“ ended in Gunjur earlier Saturday morning. The walk saw...
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Gunjur Online
- Nov 10
- 3 min
Health Benefits of Exercise - Abubacarr F Darboe
How many times have you talked to someone about the importance of exercise? Or how many times have you seen boys bragging about being...
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Gunjur Online
- Nov 9
- 2 min
Diabetes and Hypertension: A Lifestyle & Diet Resultant Menace, Worldwide
Diabetes and hypertension are two significant health burdens globally. Diabetes: Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized...
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Dr. Bakary J. Sonko
- Oct 6
- 6 min
Commentary: An Opinion on the Banning of FGM in The Gambia
For a while now, there has been a growing call from some parliamentarians in our National Assembly as well as from Islamic scholars to...
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Gunjur Online
- Jul 11
- 2 min
India takes action against pharmaceutical companies blamed for Gambia cough syrup deaths
India, a major drugs exporting country has said that it has taken action against pharmaceutical companies blamed for deaths of children...
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Sainey Darboe
- Apr 13
- 2 min
Gunjur children in danger at beach mosque, as child dies
Children as young as five are being exposed to risk of sexual harassment and physical harm at the beach mosque in Gunjur. A US-based...
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Gunjur Online
- Apr 8
- 2 min
Gunjur beach road: Light at the end of the tunnel?
Construction works on the Gunjur beach road to start within a month. The new beach road will be built with concrete instead of tarmac due...
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Gunjur Online
- Oct 25, 2022
- 4 min
The Gambia has failed to protect her pregnant women and babies
I am aware that the Gambia is a nation of intractable sycophancy. But for us to reduce ourselves to accepting the balderdash flaunted by...
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Gunjur Online
- Oct 3, 2022
- 2 min
GEPADG-GHEC recognises outstanding community volunteers
The Gunjur Environmental Protection and Developmemt Group (GEPADG) headed by Executive Director Mr Badara N. Bajo in collaboration with...
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Gunjur Online
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
The Covid Frontliner documentary to be shown at the Creative Youth Festival in Cape Town
Gambia: The Covid Frontliner documentary produced in The Gambia is to be screened at the Creative Youth Festival in Cape Town , South...
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Gunjur Online
- Mar 30, 2022
- 1 min
Faburama Darboe donates blood pressure monitor machine to Gunjur Health Centre
Faburama Darboe, also known as Kampung has donated a blood pressure monitor machine to the Gunjur Health Centre. The machine was...
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Gunjur Online
- Mar 29, 2022
- 6 min
Omar Bojang: Personal Statement of an aspiring Medical Doctor
I like to think that the story of me is told in two parts. The first part long before me, and the second part long after me. Allow me to...
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Abdou Saho
- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
Open letter to the Inspector General of Police
Featured: Open letter to the Inspector General of Police | Gunjur Online Dear Sir, The spectacular increase of vehicles on the road has...
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Omar A.J Saho
- Oct 24, 2021
- 2 min
Commentary: Maternal mortality
No women should die in pregnancy and during childbirth. The efficiency of a government, its healthcare system, and level of development...
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Gunjur Online
- Oct 14, 2021
- 1 min
Help Fatoumata Janneh Seek Medical Treatment In Senegal
Fatoumata Janneh is a 22 year old student from Gunjur, Kombo South, The Gambia. Fatoumata’s education and dream of going through school...
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Basidia M. Drammeh
- Sep 18, 2021
- 1 min
Opinion: Outrageous!
It has been reported that at least 200 expectant mothers have lost their lives in the Gambia between July 2020 to September 2021. The...
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Dr. Therese Ann Markow
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
Op-Ed: The other side of the coin…COVID-19 resistance, susceptibility, and outcome
People wonder why some people, despite close and even intimate contact with a gravely ill COVID-19 patient, never get sick? The answer to...
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Gunjur Online
- Jul 13, 2021
- 2 min
USA based Gambian Binta Gassama donates diabetes medication to Gunjur Youths for Health (GYH)
One of the biggest challenges facing diabetes and hypertensive patients in The Gambia is early diagnosis and when they are diagnosed,...
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Gunjur Online
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
UDP COMMISERATION MESSAGE ON THE RAINSTORMS THAT CAUSED LOSS OF LIVES
UDP COMMISERATION MESSAGE ON THE RAINSTORMS THAT CAUSED LOSS OF LIVES AND SEVERE DAMAGES TO PROPERTIES ACROSS THE GAMBIA UDP stands in...
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Gunjur Online
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
Portsmouth based Gunjurian boosts Gunjur Youths for Health
Kevin Tijan Touray on Wednesday donated medical uniforms to the Gunjur Youth for Health organisation to compliment thier health awareness...
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Gunjur Online
- Mar 23, 2021
- 1 min
Another serious car accident in Gunjur causes injuries
Another serious car accident in Gunjur causes injuries Gunjur has witnessed yet another serious road traffic accident on the Gunjur -...
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Ian Urbina
- Mar 22, 2021
- 18 min
Featured: The Smell of money by Ian Urbina
The smell of money by Ian Urbina Gunjur, a town of some fifteen thousand people, sits on the Atlantic coastline of southern Gambia, the...
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Gunjur Online
- Mar 21, 2021
- 1 min
Gunjur Youths For Health kicks off blood pressure and glucose screening
Gunjur Youths For Health kicks off blood pressure and glucose screening As part of their Community Health Outreach program, Gunjur Youths...
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Gunjur Online
- Mar 13, 2021
- 2 min
Dr Ismaila Ceesay: Injustice against one Gambian is an injustice against every Gambian
Dr Ismaila Ceesay: Injustice against one Gambian is an injustice against every Gambian Dr Ismaila Ceesay, presidential aspirant under...
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Reporting by Fabai Janneh
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
PURA and NAWEC officials meet Gunjur authorities over water issue
PURA and NAWEC officials meet Gunjur authorities over water issue Thursday 11th March 2021 Gunjur Alikalo Alhagie Ba Giki Darboe and...
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Gunjur Online
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
37,000 COVAX syringes arrived in The Gambia ahead of COVID-19 vaccinations
37,000 COVAX syringes arrived in The Gambia ahead of COVID-19 vaccinations The Governement of The Gambia has received over 37K syringes...
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Yero S. Bah
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
Wally: Covid-19 is Good for the Environment
In an exclusive interview with GunjurOnline, Mr. Wally M. Faal alias Wole has revealed that the coronavirus is having a positive impact...
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Gunjur Online
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
Gambia needs a comprehensive Waste disposal system, says a American Environmental Intern in Gunjur
Environmentalists worldwide are crisscrossing the globe in a bid to gather scientific environmental data and evidence in order to devise...
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Gunjur Online
- Jan 29, 2021
- 1 min
Doku Group Gambia: Engineering company pays 1,000 Dalasi reward to encourage masking
A top Gambian Engineering company,Doku Group Gambia Ltd has started an initiative that encourages people to wear masks to prevent the...
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Gunjur Online
- Jan 14, 2021
- 1 min
‘Promising’ doctor dies after ‘routine surgery’
The death has been announced of doctor Ismaila Manneh who succumbed after going under the knife for what a respected colleague...
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Gunjur Online
- Jan 11, 2021
- 1 min
New Zebra crossings installed at major junctions in Gunjur
Following installations of speed bumps in strategic locations of the coastal highway that passed through the sprawling coastal town of...
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GunjurOnline Sport
- Dec 6, 2020
- 1 min
Football: DIEGO FC are Champions of Kaajabang
DIEGO FC are the crowned champions of Kaajabang after defeating Kaajabang United in a thrilling final held on Saturday. The hard fought...
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GunjurOnline
- Dec 6, 2020
- 2 min
UK based Gunjurians donate Blood Pressure Machines to Gunjur Youths for Health
Gunjur Youths for Health, a locally based community organisation has received Blood Pressure Machines (Sphygmomanometer) from Mr Sulay...
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Gunjur Online
- Dec 2, 2020
- 1 min
EFSTH surgeon deplores ‘silent epidemic’ of road traffic accidents, deaths
A surgeon at Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, Dr. Kebba Marena, has raised the alarm about the upsurge in road traffic accident...
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Gunjur Online
- Nov 27, 2020
- 1 min
Jaha Dukureh: Covid put girls at increased risk of harmful practices
Renowned Gambian anti-FGM campaigner and executive director of Safe Hands for Girls, Jaha Dukureh,has assessed the emergence of Covid-19...
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Sainey Darboe, Editor-in-chief
- Nov 11, 2020
- 3 min
Dr Jaye Ceesay laments plight of cancer patients,calls for greater gov't investment in health sector
African governments including The Gambia should allocate more resources to improving health care delivery or face a campaign for...
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Sainey Darboe, Editor-in-Chief
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
Scandal: PURA finds Nawec guilty of supplying ‘unsafe’ drinking water to Gunjur
The people of Gunjur have been at the receiving end of ‘unsafe’ drinking water for five years thanks to severe neglect on the part of...
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Gunjur Online
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Ahmed Manjang: My target was to Lecture at UTG but ended up at MRC Gambia
Ahmad Manjang is a native of Gunjur who had his first Degree in Microbiology from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom...
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Sainey Darboe
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
Gambia: ‘Cancer patients get sent home to die,’ survivor laments
The lack of early detection and intervention for people with cancer due to poor health care facilities in The Gambia has meant that...
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Gunjur Online
- Oct 18, 2020
- 1 min
Sibindinto FC installs ceiling fans, light bulbs at Gunjur Health Centre
Sebindinto football club, also known as YSB were at the Gunjur Health Centre on Saturday with electricians to install 10 ceiling fans,10...
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Gunjur Online
- Oct 18, 2020
- 1 min
Opinion: It’s too soon to celebrate!
It’s too soon to celebrate! | Basidia M Drammeh It’s too soon for the Gambia to let its guards down, in the fight against COVID-19. The...
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Sainey Darboe
- Oct 13, 2020
- 2 min
American entrepreneur pledges support to people with disabilities in Africa
Eric Patrick Thomas, an American entrepreneur has called for greater efforts to brainstorm on ways to better support people with...
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Gunjur Online
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
NHRC STATEMENT ON DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD
NHRC STATEMENT COMMEMORATING INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD 11 OCTOBER 2020. On October 11th, the National Human Rights Commission...
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Gunjur Online
- Sep 30, 2020
- 1 min
YSB Boosts Gunjur Health Centre with computers
30 September | GunjurOnline Young Soccer Brothers, fondly called YSB has today presented two laptop computers to the Gunjur Health Centre...
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Gunjur Online
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min
Scandal: Plunder of Covid-19 funds exposed, as nurses go without pay
Scandal: Plunder of Covid-19 funds exposed, as nurses go without pay They risk their lives on the frontlines of the fight against a...
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Gunjur Online
- Sep 21, 2020
- 1 min
Red Star Family Company teams up with SUNU REEW and Wahktan Gambia to clean up EFSTH Sanatorium
Monday 21 September | GunjurOnline Red Star Family Company, Founded by USA based Gunjurian Yankuba Darboe, a lawn mowing, tree cutting,...
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Gunjur Online
- Sep 21, 2020
- 2 min
Abubacarr Touray: Sand Mining Threatens Women Gardeners’ Livelihoods in Gunjur Village
Monday 21 September | Yero S.Bah Abubacarr Touray: Sand Mining Threatens Women Gardeners’ Livelihoods in Gunjur Village The...
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Gunjur Online
- Sep 17, 2020
- 2 min
Barrow Relaxes Nightly Curfew and Market Restrictions, Public Health Regulations Remain In Force
“At the expiration of the State of Public Emergency by midnight tonight, His Excellency, President Adama Barrow, has decided to relax the...
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Gunjur Online
- Sep 17, 2020
- 1 min
Murder most foul: EFSTH vows ‘punishment’ as report finds staff guilty in mother’s death
17 September | Sainey Darboe Staff of the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) have been found negligent in the death of Fatou...
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