Gambia Archives - Career Meaning

First Person: Passion to feed a healthier Gambia

·April 8, 2023·3 min read

At only 24 years of age, Alhadgie Faal has built a successful small business, by turning family land in Kanuma, which is in Gambia’s North Bank region, into a sizable plot, where he grows fruit and vegetables to sell to restaurants and hotels. He started his company after receiving training...

INTERVIEW: ‘Every other young girl you see in The Gambia has undergone female genital mutilation’

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·March 11, 2023·4 min read

Ndeye Rose Sarr When a girl starts to menstruate, that’s when the problems usually start. From the age of 10, she begins to be looked at as a potential bride for an older man. And if she has not yet undergone FGM, there will be those in her community...

Changing lives in The Gambia: A UN Resident Coordinator Blog

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·March 5, 2023·4 min read

When my mandate began, in 2018, it was not long after the end of the dictatorship [The two-decade rule of Yahya Jammeh]. The new Government was already embracing several reforms simultaneously, reviewing the constitution, the judiciary, and the security sector, and the UN had allocated funds for peacebuilding. Women working...

First Person: Hatching a plan for success in rural Gambia

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·February 26, 2023·5 min read

Guidom Sabally’s high school education was cut short because his family could no longer afford school fees. For many years, he struggled to find work as an unskilled labourer. Now in his 40s, Mr. Sabally was able to take up the opportunity of free technical training, provided by a UN-led...

Building peace: Plotting a route towards democracy in The Gambia |

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·June 18, 2022·4 min read

For Isatou Ceesay and Tombong Njie, the term “witch hunt” is not metaphorical. Under the regime of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, they were both literally condemned as witches. “He held people in custody, tortured them, and that was the end of them,” says Ms. Ceesay. “We were so embarrassed to...