The new Gambian president Adama Barrow will be formally inaugurated today, February 18, at the Independence Stadium in the capital, Banjul. The official swearing-in of President Barrow has also been tied to The Gambia’s 52nd Independence Day celebration. Reports also indicate that presidents from about 20 African countries are expected to grace the event. While … Read more
New Gambian President Adama Barrow is due to be formally inaugurated in the capital Banjul where celebrations will mark 52 years of the west African country’s independence. Mr Barrow was sworn in last month at a ceremony at the Gambian embassy in neighbouring Senegal. Long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh had refused to step down despite his … Read more
A top official of the United States (US) will join a host of dignitaries at the inauguration ceremony of Gambian President Adama Barrow tomorrow. The Gambia’s 52nd Independence Day celebration has also been tied to the official swearing-in of President Adama Barrow. The event will take place at the Independence Stadium in the capital, Banjul. … Read more
Minister of Defense, Dominic Nitiwul has revealed that it cost the country 450,000 US dollars to transport troops that supported the ECOWAS forces during the precarious situation in The Gambia. About 205 soldiers were sent to the Senegal to back a joint regional force that had planned a military intervention when The Gambian former leader, … Read more
Minister of Defense, Dominic Nitiwul has revealed that it cost the country 450,000 US dollars to transport troops that supported the ECOWAS forces during the precarious situation in The Gambia. About 205 soldiers were sent to the Senegal to back a joint regional force that had planned a military intervention when The Gambian former leader, … Read more
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, managed to make reference to former Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, during his trip to the country on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Johnson in a 43-seconds video posted on his Twitter handle referred to Jammeh as ‘the guy who was really holding things up.’ Jammeh is currently in Equatorial … Read more
Ghana’s soldiers in the ECOWAS mission in The Gambia will be reduced from 208 to 50 men, the Minister for Defence Dominic Nitiwul has announced. Reporting on the progress of the mission in Parliament on Wednesday, Hon. Nitiwul said the downsizing of Ghana’s troops within the mission is due to the success of the international … Read more
President Adama Barrow has appointed a Gambian lawyer and former UN prosecutor as chief justice of the country’s supreme court, ending a series of controversial foreign appointments to the position by exiled former leader Yahya Jammeh, AFP news agency reports. Hassan Bubacar Jallow has served in the appeals chamber of the Special Court for Sierra … Read more
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has commended the Ghana Armed Forces as well as former President John Mahama and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for their role in bringing peace to The Gambia. “We have found at last an African Solution to an African problem,” he proudly declared on the … Read more
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, managed to make reference to former Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, during his trip to the country on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Johnson in a 43-seconds video posted on his Twitter handle referred to Jammeh as ‘the guy who was really holding things up.’ Jammeh is currently in Equatorial … Read more
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is in The Gambia, has said he is “very pleased” the West African state intends to rejoin the Commonwealth. His visit, the first to The Gambia by a British foreign secretary, comes weeks after long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh went into exile after losing elections. Mr Jammeh took The Gambia out … Read more
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who in the past sparked fury over comments about Africans, arrives in The Gambia on a charm offensive Tuesday as its new government considers rejoining the Commonwealth. Johnson is to meet President Adama Barrow and visit the British-funded Medical Research Council, his ministry said, resetting ties after years of tension … Read more
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is in The Gambia, has said he is “very pleased” the West African state is rejoining the Commonwealth. His visit, the first to The Gambia by a British foreign secretary, comes weeks after long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh went into exile after losing elections. Mr Jammeh took The Gambia out of … Read more
The Gambia’s new government has asked the United Nations to halt the process of withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) begun by the regime of former leader Yahya Jammeh. The Hague-based court, set up in 2002, is often accused of bias against African nations, leading The Gambia, Burundi and South Africa to send notice … Read more
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who notoriously sparked fury over comments about Africans made when he worked as a journalist, will visit the continent for the first time as minister this week. Johnson will start the visit Tuesday in The Gambia, where he will meet President Adama Barrow and visit the British-funded Medical Research Council, … Read more
The Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh wielded a potent mix of brute force and mysticism to keep citizens in a permanent state of fear, a legacy that lingers. Whether a poor farmer or government minister, nobody could feel safe during Jammeh’s 22-year rule. Now, weeks after the paranoid autocrat was chased from power in the … Read more
The West African force deployed to The Gambia last month to help President Adama Barrow take power will be cut to 500 from 7,000 this month. A statement from Mr Barrow’s office read on state television said the gradual scaling down would begin no later than 19 February, Reuters news agency reports. The troops intervened … Read more
Gambian President Adama Barrow has reiterated his pre-election promise that the country will not pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC), reversing the decision of his predecessor Yahya Jammeh who had denounced it as the “International Caucasian Court for the persecution and humiliation of people of colour, especially Africans”. Mr Barrow made the comments … Read more
Senegal’s Army Chief has met with President Adama Barrow during a visit to the Gambia where he met with regional troops who were deployed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Brigadier General Cheikh Dieye visited the troops who are expected to shore up security in the Gambia for at least six months. … Read more
The Gambia has expressed gratitude to its only landed neighbour, Senegal, for its intervention in the post election crisis. Senegal’s efforts in terms of mediation and by military intervention resulted in the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in the Gambia’s history. Gambian vice-president, Fatoumata Tambajang, was in Dakar on Monday where she … Read more