The leader of the Southern Senegalese separatist movement, Salif Sadio on Sunday warned that The Gambia must not allow her territory to be used by Senegal, Ecowas or any other body in the Casamance conflict. Mr Sadio was speaking at his base in the jungle, where he handed over 2[Read More…]
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Juwara Asks Opposition To Unconditionally Back Darboe
The leader of the dormant National Democratic Action Movement (NDAM) has called on opposition leaders in the country to put aside individual differences and rally behind UDP’s Ousainu Darboe to unseat President Adama Barrow in December election. Lamin Waa Juwara served as propaganda secretary for the UDP in its early[Read More…]
Barrow Defends Alliance With APRC
President Adama Barrow has defended the controversial alliance between his National People’s Party and the former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction of former president Yahya Jammeh. The alliance generated condemnation from politicians, victims and human rights activists who described it as a total betrayal to the change that[Read More…]
Gambia: Marabout, 80, Dies From Covid-19
(JollofNews) – A marabout, 80, has become The Gambia’s second documented Covid-19 related death since the first was recorded in March. According to the health ministry, the man recently returned from Senegal but evaded quarantine and stayed in Manjai Kunda for a week before developing symptoms. He was eventually taken[Read More…]
Gambia: Finance Minister Says D500M Covid-19 Funds Ready
The Minister of Finance, Mambury Njie has told lawmakers that the D500 million Covid-19 emergency fund is available and ready for disbursement. Speaking at the National Assembly during the debate on the extension of state of emergency, Minister Njie however clarified “The entire D500 million is for health and the[Read More…]
UDP Expels BAC Chairman Sonko, 2 Councillors
(JollofNews) – The United Democratic Party has finally expelled its elected Chairman of Brikama Area Council Sheriffo Sonko. The party’s spokesman Almamy Fanding Taal confirmed to The Standard yesterday that Mr Sonko’s expulsion letter has been dispatched to his office.”He was not found at the office but it was sent[Read More…]
MA Bah Resigns From UDP, Declares 100% Support To President Barrow
(JollofNews) – General MA Bah, a former Interior minister has announced he has now taken a break from partisan politics to concentrate on supporting President Barrow on his national development agenda. Bah who defected from the APRC to the UDP following a power struggle he lost to FTJ, personally submitted[Read More…]
Gambia: UDP Asks Barrow To Drop Political Ambition
(JollofNews) – The United Democratic Party’s deputy administrative secretary, Alhagie S. Darboe has said that the National Development Plan NDP is not the only agenda of President Barrow adding that Barrow has his own political agenda. Speaking at a rally in Gunjur Saturday, Darboe who is also the national assembly[Read More…]
Gambia: OJ Attacks BB Dabo
(JollofNews) – The former interim leader of the PPP, Omar Jallow, (OJ) has said that Bakary Dabo, a former vice president in the Jawara government who recently lost the party’s leadership election to Papa Njie, has no ‘credibility’ to lead the PPP because he had once accused the party’s regime[Read More…]
‘Barrow Youth Movement Is UDP’s Greatest Rival’
(JollofNews) – The public spat between President Barrow and his former political home, the United Democratic Party, has reached another notch with the national assembly member of Serekunda West Madi Ceesay describing the Barrow Youth Movement as a political party in the offing, warning that the movement is the UDP’s[Read More…]
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