Dr. Cherno Barry, former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Health and current deputy head of the Senegalo-Gambia Permanent Secretariat, testified in the economic crimes trial of three health officials in The Gambia. The accused, PS Muhammadou Lamin Jaiteh, Balla Kandeh, and Omar Malleh Ceesay, face 18 charges including economic crimes, forgery, corruption, and theft related to the Gates Foundation-funded Global Fund's national malaria control program. The case is set to continue on March 5.