(JollofNews) – Two Libyans held for years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been flown to Senegal for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Monday, the latest move in President Barack Obama’s final push to close the facility.
Year: 2016
6 Dead In Gambia’s Road Crash
(JollofNews) – At least six people were killed in a fatal road collision involving a truck and a commercial vehicle along the Tanji-Serekunda highway, police have confirmed. Several other passengers sustained serious injuries and have been taken to the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in the country’s capital of Banjul.[Read More…]
Gambia’s Opposition Elects Barred Leader As Presidential Candidate
(JollofNews) – The Gambia’s main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) Sunday unanimously re-elected Ousainou Darboe, who is ineligible to contest elections, as its flagbearer in this year’s presidential poll. Ousainou Darboe, 67, who founded the UDP in 1996, is constitutionally barred from contesting presidential elections in the West African nation[Read More…]