(JollofNews)– Dr Isatou Touray is on the campaign trail. Over the coming 15 days, the 61-year-old women’s rights activist and academic will cover hundreds of miles, bouncing over rutted rural roads and through narrow lanes in crowded cities, addressing rally after rally. Most will be small affairs on scrubby soccer[Read More…]
Tag: Gambia 2016 Elections
Gambia 2016: Electoral Commission To Decide Candidates’ Eligibility
(JollofNews) – The Gambia’s electoral commission (IEC) will today make a decision on the eligibility of the various candidates seeking to contest next month’s presidential election. Both candidates including President Yahya Jammeh and his challengers, Adama Barrow of the opposition coalition and Mamma Kandeh of the Gambia Democratic Congress, have[Read More…]
UN Envoy Urges Gambia To Free Jailed Opposition Figures
(JollofNews) – The special representative of the UN secretary general for West Africa and Sahel urged Gambia’s government Thursday to release an opposition leader and dozens of his supporters from prison. In April this year, Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party and a host of his colleagues were sentenced[Read More…]
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