Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared a 90-day state of emergency a day before his official mandate ends. Regional leaders have been unsuccessfully trying to persuade him to hand over power to Adama Barrow, who won December’s elections. The move comes after Nigeria deployed a warship to put further pressure on Mr Jammeh. Regional bloc … Read more
Outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared a 90-day state of emergency a day before his official mandate ends, state TV reports. Regional leaders have been unsuccessfully trying to persuade him to hand over power to Adama Barrow, who won December’s elections. The move comes after Nigeria deployed a warship to further pressure Mr Jammeh. … Read more
Outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared a 90-day state of emergency a day before his official mandate ends, state TV reports. Regional leaders have been trying to persuade Mr Jammeh to hand over power to Adama Barrow, who defeated him in December’s elections. The move comes after Nigeria deployed a warship to further pressure … Read more
It has become very complicated than imaginable, the brouhaha in the Gamabia over Yahya Jammeh’s decision not to step down after haven lost an election. It is clear that, the mediators, thus, ECOWAS and other international bodies have lost all approaches, and have publicly stated in unequivocal terms, plans to resort to military intervention aimed … Read more
Gambian Foreign Affairs Minister, Neneh Macdouall Gaye, has resigned from her post. She indicated in a letter addressed to the country’s President, Yahya Jammeh that, “I am of the conviction that under the prevailing circumstances, I cannot effectively serve as Foreign Minister. I thank you for the opportunity you gave me to serve my country.” … Read more
The son of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow died after being bitten by a dog. Habibu Barrow who is eight years old is reported to have died on the way to the hospital on Sunday in Manjai near the Gambian capital Banjul. Mr Barrow who was advised to remain in Senegal for his safety missed his … Read more
The son of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has died after being bitten by a dog. Eight-year-old Habibu Barrow is reported to have died on the way to the hospital on Sunday in Manjai near the Gambian capital Banjul. Mr Barrow missed his son’s funeral as he was advised to remain in Senegal for his safety. … Read more
Three days to the end of term of outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, three other ministers in his government have resigned on Monday. They include Foreign Minister Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, Finance Minister Abdou Kolley and Trade Minister Abdou Jobe. This follows last week’s resignation of Communication Minister Sheriff Bojang, who fled the country, and Sports Minister … Read more
Adama Barrow won the election last year but the current president has rejected the result The son of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has died after being bitten by a dog. Eight-year-old Habibu Barrow is reported to have died on the way to the hospital on Sunday in Manjai near the Gambian capital Banjul. Mr Barrow … Read more
A worker at The Gambia’s main ferry crossing has told the BBC that thousands of people are fleeing every day as they are “afraid of war”. “People are in chaos, people are leaving” as they don’t know what is going to happen, he said. The Gambia’s Chief Justice has declined to rule on an application … Read more
“The Gambia’s autocratic president, Yahya Jammeh, who once claimed a “billion-year” mandate to rule, has conceded defeat after a shock election loss to a real-estate developer who once worked as a security guard in London” That is how the Guardian newspaper reported on December 2. There is time for everything thing. A time to born … Read more
African leaders are countenancing a conundrum created by one of their colleagues: Yahaya Jammeh has lost an election and he is refusing to go away, creating an avoidable tension in The Gambia. It is such a dangerous precedence which they must not allow as the people of West Africa are gradually appreciating the advantages of … Read more
French President Francois Hollande on Saturday during the France-Africa summit in Mali said that the Gambian presidential election results must be respected. Leaders and officials from some 30 African countries gathered in the capital Bamako on Saturday for the start of the 27th Africa-France summit, which focused mainly on security and development to reduce the … Read more
The Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow is to remain in Senegal until his planned inauguration on Thursday, state media in Senegal say. The move was requested by West African leaders after a summit in Mali, Senegalese news agency APS said. President Yahya Jammeh is currently refusing to step down until the supreme court can hear his … Read more
So much has been said about the December 1, 2016 Gambian Presidential election that saw Adama Barrow defeating the incumbent Yaya Jammeh. Mr Barrow, according to the declaration by the nation’s electoral body, flopped Yaya Jammeh convincingly to strip him him of a position he has wielded for more than two decades. Indeed, Yaya accepted … Read more
By: Owusu Sekyere K Jnr Recent elections and political activities in Africa and for that matter the west African sub-region continues to amuse critics, analysts, experts of security and international relations. This amusement is in the paroquial interest of how some African leaders view democracy. They subscribe to the tenets of democracy when it favours … Read more
Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has left the country for neighboring Senegal, a coalition member and local media said on Sunday, a day after West African leaders failed to persuade President Yahya Jammeh to step aside. Barrow, a former real estate agent, won a Dec. 1 election in the former British colony by a slim margin. … Read more
Gambia held its presidential elections on December 1 2016 where Adama Barrow shockingly defeated long-term incumbent Yahya Jammeh who has been in power for 22 years. Yahyah Jammeh, before the results were announced, conceeded defeat to President-elect Adama Barrow. This caused lots of celebrations across the West African country. On December 9, Yahyah Jammeh announced … Read more
The Gambia’s president-elect Adama Barrow is to remain in Senegal until his planned inauguration on Thursday, state media in Senegal say. The move was requested by West African leaders after a Mali summit, APS said. President Yahya Jammeh, who initially admitted election defeat, says he will not step down until May, when the supreme court … Read more
The Gambia’s president-elect Adama Barrow is to remain in Senegal until his planned inauguration on Thursday, state media in Senegal say. The move was requested by West African leaders after a Mali summit, APS said. President Yahya Jammeh, who initially admitted election defeat, says he will not step down until May, when the supreme court … Read more