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                    [ArticleID] => 1892280
                    [Title] => Getting to know the beautiful country of Gambia through Philippine Pink diplomacy
                    [Summary] => When Gambian honorary consul in the Philippines Agnes Huibonhoa first visited Gambia more than a decade ago, she was quite surprised to find many Europeans at the airport as soon as she landed.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-02-10 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1432730
                    [AuthorName] => Julie Cabatit-Alegre
                    [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle
                    [SectionUrl] => sunday-life
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2019/02/09/sl4-ramzia-diab-ghanim-rodrigo-duterte-agnes-huibonhoa_2019-02-09_16-16-40547_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 1845473
                    [Title] => How did African nations pull back from plans to quit ICC?
                    [Summary] => The oral arguments on the petitions challenging the Duterte administration-initiated pullout from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court will finally proceed on August 28.
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-08-24 14:19:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1805246
                    [AuthorName] => Gaea Katreena Cabico
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/articles/gen7-international-criminal-court-icc2018-06-0523-00-322018-06-1313-06-59_2018-08-24_14-07-59149_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 1533140
                    [Title] => One last push for BBL
                    [Summary] => 

While browsing my Yahoo mail last Sunday night, one particular news item caught my interest to read the entire story from the link.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-15 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136417 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097308 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1 [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1363844 [Title] => WHO helps Gambia prevent Ebola [Summary] =>

The World Health Organization (WHO) has equipped Gambian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare with laboratory materials to combat deadly Ebola, Gambia's officials said on Saturday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-31 16:00:05 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1299243 [Title] => President says Gambia to shift from English [Summary] =>

Gambia's president said that he wants to implement a policy change that would shift the country's language from English to a local language.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-10 05:27:29 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1104679 [AuthorName] => Abdoulie John [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 843633 [Title] => Senegal summons Gambian diplomat over executions [Summary] =>

The president of Senegal has denounced the execution of two Senegalese citizens who were among nine prisoners killed by firing squad in neighboring Gambia last week.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-30 04:23:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 295127 [Title] => PNOC drops plan to search for oil in Gambia [Summary] => The Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) dropped plans to pursue five oil and gas exploration blocks offered by the government of Gambia in Africa, PNOC president Eduardo Mañalac said over the weekend.

"We will not take the offer because we found very little or low potential," Mañalac said.

The PNOC earlier explored oil and gas reserves in Gambia west of Africa following an offer from Gambian president Alhaji Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh to explore five exploration blocks there at no cost to the government.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283351 [Title] => PNOC keen on oil exploration prospects in Gambia [Summary] => The state-owned Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) is taking concrete steps to push through with plans to undertake oil exploration in Gambia in West Africa, Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla said yesterday.

"(Gambian) President Alhai Jammeh offered to the Philippines one exploration block and PNOC will prepare for the exploration work there," said Lotilla.

The Philippines’ oil exploration agreement with Gambia was an offshoot of the recently-concluded state visit of Jammeh.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283178 [Title] => Pinoy farmers’ peanuts link RP and Gambia [Summary] => While the economy of the tiny Republic of Gambia in West Africa depends primarily on agriculture, it also finds itself agriculturally linked to the Philippines via the "pink" peanuts indigenously grown here.

Visiting Gambian President Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh was particularly proud of the fact that a variety of his country’s peanuts — their top export product — came to Gambia in 1966 all the way from the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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