The Gambia’s former ruler Yahya Jammeh stole at least $50m from the state, the country’s justice minister said on Monday, in the first major anti-corruption move by the country’s new president. It’s the first time the new government of the west African country has put a figure on the amount it believes Jammeh plundered from … Read more
The Gambia’s longtime opposition won an absolute majority in parliamentary elections, easily defeating the party of ousted leader Yahya Jammeh, results announced Friday showed. Official results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) showed the United Democratic Party (UDP) won 31 of the 53 available elected seats in the country’s National Assembly. “(I) hereby declare … Read more
The Economic Community of West African States has resorted to solving the crisis in Gambia using peaceful mediation as against the earlier suggested military intervention. The chairperson of the West African regional bloc, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, told the media in Ghana’s capital, Accra on Saturday that ECOWAS is pursuing mediation for now and … Read more
The United States (US) has asked its citizens in the Gambia to leave the tiny West African country which is currently in a state of political uncertainty. The uncertainty is a result of the refusal of president Yahya Jammeh to handover executive power after losing the December 1 presidential elections as per the results declared … Read more
Gambian opposition are talking tough on the political situation in the country despite the strong stance taken by incumbent Yahya Jammeh. The opposition on Friday at a press conference held in Banjul said, the outcome of the December 1 polls said the victory of candidate Adama Barrow was final and “no court on earth” will … Read more
Senegal’s troops are on alert to intervene in The Gambia if President Yahya Jammeh refuses to step down next month, the regional bloc Ecowas says. Mr Jammeh initially accepted defeat in the 1 December poll, but later said it was flawed. The Ecowas chairman said Senegal had been chosen to lead operations “to restore the … Read more
Senegal’s troops are on alert to intervene in The Gambia if President Yahya Jammeh refuses to step down next month, the regional bloc Ecowas says. Mr Jammeh initially accepted defeat in the 1 December poll, but later said it was flawed. The Ecowas chairman said Senegal had been chosen to lead operations “to restore the … Read more
The West African regional bloc said on Saturday it would take all necessary actions to uphold the result of a Dec. 1 election in Gambia, where veteran President Yahya Jammeh says he will not step down after losing to Adama Barrow. ECOWAS leaders said in a communique marking the end of a summit in the … Read more
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will be “strongly sanctioned” if he tries to stay in power, the UN’s regional envoy, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, along with the US, also urged the Gambian security forces to leave the country’s electoral commission office, which they seized on Tuesday. The army could compromise … Read more