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…]
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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…]
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