Ndey Yassin Secka-Sallah is one of the three females to be appointed into the National Assembly Gambia President Adama Barrow has appointed a visually impaired woman as a member of the country’s 53-seat National Assembly. This appointment makes Ndey Yassin Secka-Sallah the first female visually impaired member of the country’s National Assembly. Ndey Yassin Secka-Sallah … Read more
The Gambia’s United Democratic Party (UDP) emerged from decades in opposition in the country’s parliament to take its first absolute majority on Friday, as support for former leader Yahya Jammeh’s party collapsed. Official results from Thursday’s election, announced by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), revealed the UDP won 31 of the 53 available elected seats … 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
Gambians will today vote for members of their one-chamber parliament. They are the first polls since Yahya Jammeh left power after more than 22 years as president. Mr Jammeh sparked a political and constitutional crisis by refusing to leave office following his defeat in the December 2016 presidential election. He finally headed for exile on … Read more
Gambians head to the polls on Thursday for the first time since the departure of longtime leader Yahya Jammeh, with multiple parties poised to enter parliament after 22 years of effective one-party rule. Several opposition parties united to form a coalition in December to oust Jammeh from power and deliver flagbearer Adama Barrow to victory … Read more
They came to dance in green t-shirts adorned with Yahya Jammeh’s grinning face and to sing the old songs of adulation as though he never went away. The Gambia’s former ruling party, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), could once expect legions of paid supporters at rallies, bolstered by a phalanx of soldiers … Read more
The Gambia’s ruling coalition has broken apart ahead of a parliamentary poll next month, dealing a blow to new President Adama Barrow as he overhauls the country’s political system following his shock election victory. Nine political parties will run separately in the April 6 election, seven of which had united last December to oust veteran … Read more
Gambian coalition parties that united last year to deliver the first new president in 22 years are unlikely to run together for legislative elections next month, a senior government source told AFP. President Adama Barrow said in January his coalition government would “continue as a family” in selecting candidates for the national assembly poll on … Read more
Gambian police have launched an investigation into a violent public assault of a reporter by supporters of President Adama Barrow, a police source told AFP Wednesday. Journalist Kebba Jeffang was hit, scratched and insulted at a press conference on Sunday held by ministers from three parties who joined together to form Barrow’s new coalition government. … Read more
Journalists in The Gambia on Tuesday urged the country’s new leadership to uphold their pledge to respect media freedom after a violent public assault on a reporter by President Adama Barrow’s supporters. Kebba Jeffang, a journalist for Foroyaa newspaper, was hit, scratched and insulted at a press conference on Sunday held by ministers from three … Read more
On 22 July 1994 he invaded peaceful Gambia political space with dangerous weapons and dislodged the nation’s serving elected government by coup. Yaya Jammeh raised hope of Gambians that he came not to stay in power but for correction of wrongs. One of the bigger wrongs according to Jammeh was about longevity of deposed President … Read more
Even by West African standards, The Gambia, with a population of just under 2 million, is a very small country. Invaginated by the much larger Republic of Senegal like a peanut-butter spread – pun intended, of course – makes the smallest officially Anglophone country in this sub-region all the more easy to forget. Which may … Read more
The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has warned his supporters that violence was like “bushfire” that could destroy the country, as he called for peaceful campaigning ahead of highly anticipated elections in which he is seeking a fifth term, AFP news agency reports. In a speech broadcast on state media, Mr Jammeh said: Our campaign is … Read more
In a statement sent to AFP, Isatou Touray said she was dropping out of the contest “so as to offer my unflinching support and cooperation to the coalition” of opposition parties which last month picked businessman Adama Barrow to represent them in the December 1 election. The Gambia’s first ever female presidential candidate has withdrawn … Read more