The interim leader of Gambia’s former governing party, Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), has urged the government of President Adama Barrow to end the unprovoked attacks on his party supporters. Fabakary Tombong Jatta said Monday and Wednesday’s attack on his supporters in Mankamang Upper River Region (URR) and[Read More…]

President Adama Barrow of the Gambia has renewed his commitment to build strong public institutions that will consolidate the country’s democracy. Presiding over the swearing in ceremony of the country’s new minister of the Interior, Ebrima M. Mballow, the secretary general and head of the civil service, Habib Saihou Drammeh[Read More…]

Authorities in the Gambia have Thursday suspended all permits issued to political parties in the country to hold political rallies. The decision was made following recent clashes between supporters of the country’s former governing party, APRC, and supports of the coalition government of President Adama Barrow. The APRC which governed[Read More…]