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…]
Profile: Bakary B Dabo: Secretary General and Leader of Gambia For All (GFA) party
Introduction It is universally accepted that a leader of any group, organisation, movement, or especially of a political party, should be well known by the people he/she leads or hopes to lead. Knowing the Secretary General and Leader of the GFA will allow those who know him less well the[Read More…]