Gambian President Adama Barrow has stirred anger and confusion ahead of a December 4 presidential poll, after forming an electoral alliance with ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh’s political party. The pact has proved deeply controversial: Barrow himself ended Jammeh’s brutal rule in a 2016 election, sparking hopes of a new democratic era[Read More…]
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‘Senegal Has No Ulterior Motive In Gambia’
The Senegalese High Commissioner in Banjul Bassirou Sène has said he is surprised that some Gambians, who are complaining about the presence of foreign forces, could easily forget that without those forces Yahya Jammeh would have still been here. A survey conducted in May by Afrobarometer revealed that an overwhelming[Read More…]
Poverty “Gaining Ground In Senegal”
Between 2011 and 2018, the National Agency of Statistics and Demography (ANSD) has identified more than 200,000 new poor. Living conditions are more precarious for some households in Senegal. The results of a harmonised survey by the ANSD, published on Monday, showed that “the number of poor people has increased”[Read More…]