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In The Gambia, migration and remittances have become society’s measure of success and failure. Through the lives of young people, we see the emotional and financial costs of staying behind, the expectations placed on those who leave, and what it means to return home after an unsuccessful attempt to migrate. Aug 16, 2026 Illustration by Shalom Ojo / THE REPUBLIC.

For decades, health facilities across The Gambia have relied on paper registers to record antenatal, delivery, postnatal, immunisation, and child health data. The handwritten logs, often incomplete, inconsistent, or illegible, formed the backbone of the country's Health Management Information System (HMIS). This manual system came with serious limitations, such as fragmented records, duplicate entries, delayed reporting, and an inability to link data between mothers and their children.

Durante décadas, abrir uma conta bancária em Portugal era um assunto relativamente simples. Com frequência, bastava ter-se um passaporte válido e efetuar um pequeno depósito para se sair de uma agência bancária com um cartão de débito na mão. Mas os tempos são outros. Os regulamentos mais rigorosos sobre a lavagem de dinheiro e a identificação dos clientes transformaram um processo que outrora era descomplicado num obstáculo, em particular para os migrantes e refugiados.