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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The biannual National Youth Conference and Festival (known as NAYCONF) starts today in Banjul. This year\u2019s event will be attended by over 2,000 youths.<\/b><\/p>\n

The weeklong event will feature a variety of sporting, cultural and intellectual programmes and discussions on the theme; \u201cYouth and the Challenges of the New Millennium\u201d.<\/p>\n

As part of the events, an art and craft exhibition portraying the talent of Gambian youths in visual and plastic arts will take place.<\/p>\n

The opening will be marked by a parade of all youth delegates from different parts of the country and cultural displays depicting the cultural forms that are most unique to each region in The Gambia.<\/p>\n

The event used to be called The National Youth Week and was first held in Banjul in 1974\/1975, then in Basse, in 1975.<\/p>\n

With the adoption of the National Youth Policy, the event became biennial and focused not only on sporting and cultural programmes but also a youth conference as well.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Gambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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