(JollofNews) – The Gambia’s Supreme Court is unlikely to convene and hear a petition by President Yayha Jammeh challenging the results of the 1 December election. Ahead of their planned sitting tomorrow, judges from Sierra Leone and Nigeria have still not travelled to The Gambia and are unlikely to do so,[Read More…]
Politics
Gambia’s Jammeh Swings Axe At Diplomats Who Asked Him To Quit
(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh has terminated the appointment of 12 high profile Gambian diplomats after they publicly failed to back his bid to hang on to power. The ambassadors including Dembo M. Badgie in Beijing, Sheikh Omar Faye in Washington, Momodou Badgie in Ankara, Elizabeth Ya Eli Harding in[Read More…]
Gambians In UK Urges Nigerian Legal Practitioners To Shun Jammeh’s Petition
(JollofNews) – The Gambian community in the United Kingdom have appealed to the Nigerian Government to call on its nationals working in the legal profession to recuse themselves from President Yahya Jammeh’s petition to the Supreme Court of the Gambia. In a petition submitted to Emmanuel Namah, chargés d’affaires at[Read More…]