There was a time in the recent past when The Gambia and Equatorial Guinea were never mentioned in the same breath but all that changed in the aftermath of the post-electoral dispute in 2016 which triggered a political crisis in mainland Africa’s smallest country. The dispute eventually ended with defeated[Read More…]
Tag: President Adama Barrow
Fears NPP’s Dipping Support Could Deepen
The popular support indicated in the Presidential election for the National Peoples Party (NPP) but which could not be replicated in the past legislative elections is seemly under a threat of a further downward spiral, if indicators are anything to go by. One of the NPP’s reliable coalition partners-APRC-is said[Read More…]
Gambians Welcome New Cabinet, but….
President Adama Barrow has finally appointed and sworn-in his long anticipated cabinet and the reaction had to a large extent been positive. With the exception of Hamat Bah and Musa Drammeh, whose inclusion in the new cabinet was a foregone conclusion, in view of them being very close confidants of[Read More…]