Gambia’s Gets First Visually Impaired Female MP
Ndey Yassin Secka-Sallah is one of the three females to be appointed into the National Assembly Gambia President Adama Barrow ...
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Gambia’s UDP Takes Control of Post-Jammeh Parliament
The Gambia’s United Democratic Party (UDP) emerged from decades in opposition in the country’s parliament to take its first absolute ...
Gambia’s Opposition UDP Wins Absolute Majority From Jammeh Party
The Gambia's longtime opposition won an absolute majority in parliamentary elections, easily defeating the party of ousted leader Yahya Jammeh, ...
The Vote Gambia’s President Barrow Must Win
Gambians will today vote for members of their one-chamber parliament. They are the first polls since Yahya Jammeh left power ...
Gambians Head To Polls For First Post-Jammeh Vote
Gambians head to the polls on Thursday for the first time since the departure of longtime leader Yahya Jammeh, with ...
Dancing In the Dark With Jammeh’s Diehard Supporters
They came to dance in green t-shirts adorned with Yahya Jammeh's grinning face and to sing the old songs of ...
Gambia Ruling Coalition Breaks Up Ahead of April Poll
The Gambia's ruling coalition has broken apart ahead of a parliamentary poll next month, dealing a blow to new President ...
Gambia Coalition Near Collapse Over Legislative Election
Gambian coalition parties that united last year to deliver the first new president in 22 years are unlikely to run ...
Gambian Police Launch Probe Into Journalist’s Beating
Gambian police have launched an investigation into a violent public assault of a reporter by supporters of President Adama Barrow, ...
Gambian Journalists Pressure Govt After Attack On Reporter
Journalists in The Gambia on Tuesday urged the country's new leadership to uphold their pledge to respect media freedom after ...
Gambia President For 1 Billion Years At End Of A Dream
On 22 July 1994 he invaded peaceful Gambia political space with dangerous weapons and dislodged the nation’s serving elected government ...
Jammeh Deserves Hard Butt-Kicking
Even by West African standards, The Gambia, with a population of just under 2 million, is a very small country. ...
Don’t Light An Electoral Bushfire
The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has warned his supporters that violence was like "bushfire" that could destroy the country, as ...
First Female Gambian Presidential Candidate Withdraws
In a statement sent to AFP, Isatou Touray said she was dropping out of the contest "so as to offer ...