(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia Friday rejected the results of last weeks election accusing the country’s electoral commission of committing ‘unacceptable mistakes’. Mr Jammeh, 51, who has ruled the Gambia since July 1994, lost the election to Adama Barrow of the opposition coalition. Final results by the[Read More…]
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Gambia: Defeated Ruling Party Enforcer Reaches Out To Supporters
(JollofNews) – The national mobiliser of President Yahya Jammeh’s APRC has called on the vanguards of the party and its supporters to unite and work towards achieving victory in subsequent elections. Mr Jammeh’s party which has been governing the Gambia since 1996 was defeated in last Thursday’s election by a[Read More…]
Gambia Has Ridden Itself Of Jammeh – The World Must Not Forget It When The News Cycle Moves On
(JollofNews) – Aisha was just two weeks old when her father Momodou was arrested. A long time supporter of Gambia’s largest opposition party, the United Democratic Party (UDP), he was arrested with several other UDP members on 16 April 2016 as they walked down the road with their arms linked[Read More…]