(JollofNews) – Barely a month after US authorities restored trade benefits to the Gambia under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), high ranking officials from the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) have landed in Banjul to start the process of developing the threshold program. The move comes on the heels[Read More…]
Year: 2018
Barrow Vows To Give Gambians The Change They Voted For
(JollofNews) – President Adama Barrow of the Gambia has vowed to give his people the change they voted for, saying that business cannot be as usual. The pronouncement comes a year after he was sworn into office to preside over the destiny of the tiny West African nation. “I therefore urge you all[Read More…]
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Democratic Deficit In Gambia’s Democracy
The Gambia’s political leadership is weighed in the balance and found wanting since the country gained independence in 1965. Without peaceful power alternation and presidential term limits of fifty-three years, The Gambia has had only three presidents, unlike in the United States where ten presidents served for fifty-three years. What[Read More…]
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