Up to six Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC) candidates have Monday filed in their nomination papers at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Regional Office, Brikama. They all vowed to defend an agenda for change in West Coast Region as the stakes are getting higher and higher. Momodou King Colley who is[Read More…]
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Gambia 2021: Barrow Defends Alliance With APRC
President Adama Barrow of the Gambia has defended going into alliance with the country’s former ruling APRC party . Mr Barrow said the alliance is done in the spirit of national reconciliation, peace and in the best interest of the country. Speaking to reporters shortly after submitting his nomination papers[Read More…]
Gambia 2021: Ex-president Jammeh’s Address – A Death Knell For The APRC?
The biggest topic of discussion this past week had no doubt been the much anticipated address by former President Yahya Jammeh to his embattled APRC. While what he was about to say could have been easily anticipated considering the fact it was the faction against the coalition with the NPP[Read More…]
Gambia’s Ex-ruler Rejects Proposed Alliance With Barrow
Gambia’s exiled former long-term ruler Yahya Jammeh has vetoed a proposed electoral alliance between his party and the governing party of President Adama Barrow. Executive members of Mr Jammeh’s party have agreed in principle to throw their weight behind Mr Barrow in the December election with the promise of an amnesty for Mr[Read More…]
APRC – NPP Alliance Poses An Existential Threat
We’re witnessing, in real time, the threat an APRC – NPP-led government will pose to our freedoms. First a disgraced army General inciting a faction of the military, and now another disgraced army officer lambasting a catholic priest for preaching THE TRUTH to his flock. Both of these former military[Read More…]
Gambia’s Jammeh Pact Bombshell: Treachery Or Reconciliation?
In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy considers the fallout of an unlikely alliance. It is an oft-quoted maxim that politics makes strange bedfellows. Can you imagine US President Joe Biden forming an alliance with the Republican Party of Donald Trump? Well, something akin[Read More…]
Barrow Defends Alliance With APRC
President Adama Barrow has defended the controversial alliance between his National People’s Party and the former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction of former president Yahya Jammeh. The alliance generated condemnation from politicians, victims and human rights activists who described it as a total betrayal to the change that[Read More…]
The NPP/APRC Alliance – Genuine Reconciliation Or Self-Serving?
(JollofNews) – As we get closer to the presidential elections, there is no shortage of issues to talk about, and one of those is no doubt the alliance between President Adama Barrow’s National People’s Party (NPP) and former President Yahya Jammeh’s Alliance for Patriotic, Reorientation and Construction (APRC). While this[Read More…]
Anger As Gambian President Allies With Ex-dictator’s Party
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…]
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: Lessons To Learn From The “Grace To Grass” Fall Of PPP, APRC, NCP, GPP
Once upon a time, the PPP and APRC dominated the political landscape of the Gambia; like that towering, intimidating colossus, a bogeyman with a frightening larger than life stature. Between them, they shared 51 years of our life, 29 and 22 years respectively. What has happened to the mighty? Where[Read More…]
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