Anyone who has grown up in or around the Gambia’s electoral politics knows that when it comes to party politics, there is a dirty word that has more than four letters; that word is “patronage.” Political patronage or the spoils system (indeed, any kind of patronage) employs a system that[Read More…]
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Gambia: Halifa Sallah Warns Against Distortion Of Coalition Agreement
(JollofNews) – The leader of one of the political parties in the Gambia’s coalition government has warned against the distortion of the coalition agreement which gave birth to the government of Adama Barrow. Halifa Sallah of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), said the rules relating to[Read More…]
Gambia To Consider Ecowas’s Three-Child Policy
(JollofNews) – Gambia’s Information Minister Demba Ali Jawo has said the government will consider the three-child policy proposal that parliamentarians from Ecowas, Mauritania and Chad have agreed to help pioneer in the coming years. “Ecowas has made a suggestion for such a policy. I can assure you that the government[Read More…]
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