(JollofNews) – Salif Joof looked nervously at his door as he welcomed me into the three bedroom house he shares with his partner. “I am a dead man walking,” he said. The 38-year-old renown Gambian activist is facing deportation to his native country after his asylum application was refused by[Read More…]
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Gambia 2016: Opposition Leaders Hold Crunch Coalition Talks
(JollofNews) – Opposition leaders in Gambia are holding talks to put up a single candidate against president Yahya Jammeh in the December elections. The Gambia will hold presidential election on 1st December, with legislative and local polls to follow in April 2017 and April 2018. The small West African nation[Read More…]
Gambia 2016: Dates For Presidential Nomination Announced
(JollofNews) – Nominations for the Gambia’s presidential election will be held from 7th to 10th November, the country’s electoral commission has announced. At least nine registered political parties and one independent candidate have announced their intentions to contest this year’s election. And the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said the three-day[Read More…]
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