International volunteer Kathryn Cunningham recruited her local community in Delaware, USA, to help power a local hospital in The Gambia using solar panels. Kathryn: “We started this project in October 2006 - our goal was to raise 300,000 for this project. We have raised 240,000 dollars so far..we will get there!”

The Gambian-born writer took up writing at 35 and it took four years to get her first book contract.

This is a sidecar ambulance in operation in Gambia. The contraption may “not be the world’s most sophisticated ambulance, but it works”, writes Giles Whittell via Timesonline…

The patient can lie strapped to a stretcher on top of the sidecar if it’s too uncomfortable for her to sit. There is a mini-boot for personal effects [...]

TradeNet is an online portal set up for traders and producers to “access prices for specific commodities and markets throughout West Africa”. The portal also permits SMS messaging ; users can receive alerts on prices and commodities and access “market conditions” via their cellphones.
TradeNet is conceived under the MISTOWA project which aims to increase [...]

Video: Gambia president Yahya Jammeh cures AIDS and Asthma using natural herbs. Should the world pay attention?

Coverage of TED African Conference in Arusha, Tanzania
By Ethan Zuckerman
Alieu Conteh is a Gambian entrepreneur who has been deeply involved with the Democratic Republic of Congo, even during some of the nation’s darkest days. Under the Mobutu government, he was a coffee exporter, purchasing beans, roasting them in Kinshasa and flying it to [...]