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s most vulnerable districts with inputs such as power tillers, tractors, rice threshers, seeders, sine hoes and bags of fertilisers. "In July, I harvested 20 hectares [49.4 acres] of rice fields on my own farm, and our association harvested 100 hectares across the Central River region," said Ceesay. He makes 35,000 Gambian dalasi ($1,170) every three months or so, half of what government ministers...

s threat to kill all of the country's remaining 38 death row inmates isolates tiny west African nation The Gambia is facing growing international isolation after the government claimed it would execute all the country's death row inmates within the next month. Thirty-eight prisoners, many of them convicted of treason for allegedly plotting against the 18-year rule of President Yahya Jammeh, are facing...