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President Adama Barrow pledges reforms, but Secret Police Remains

President Adama Barrow pledges reforms, but Secret Police Remains

Adama Barrow, The Gambia’s new president, has vowed to reform the country’s notorious intelligence agency and promised to ensure media freedom in the country. Speaking at his first news conference since returning to take office on Thursday, Barrow announced plans to rename the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), a dreaded secret police accused by rights groups of […]

Gambian Migrant Drowns In Italy as Tourists Film, Laugh and Making Racist Remarks: Watch Video

Gambian Migrant Drowns In Italy as Tourists Film, Laugh and Making Racist Remarks: Watch Video

Footage of a Gambian man drowning in Italy while onlookers watch, jeer, film and racially insult him, has gone viral on social media. According to Independent UK, an investigation has since been opened after the African refugee drowned in Venice’s Great Canal, as onlookers watched from nearby boats and filmed him with their phones. Footage […]

Equatorial Guinea confirms hosting ousted Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh

Equatorial Guinea confirms hosting ousted Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh

Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Tuesday it was hosting ousted Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who fled his country after West African troops threatened to remove him by force if he did not concede his election defeat. Information Minister Eugenio Nse Obiang confirmed that Jammeh was in the country in a statement sent out to journalists. He […]

Newly Elected Adama Barrow Faces Test As He Returns to the Gambia

Newly Elected Adama Barrow Faces Test As He Returns to the Gambia

The Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow will return to the capital Banjul on Thursday, days after long-standing ruler Yahya Jammeh, who initially disputed the election results, was forced into exile. Barrow had to be inaugurated in neighbouring Senegal as regional powers threw their weight behind the new leader and threatened military intervention if Jammeh refused […]

President Adama Barrow Requests Ecowas Force to Remain for 6 Months

President Adama Barrow Requests Ecowas Force to Remain for 6 Months

The ECOWAS Commission has said its coalition force in The Gambia would remain for the next six months, as requested by President Adama Barrow. Marcel de Souza said this while briefing members of the diplomatic corps and partner organisations on the political situation in The Gambia on Tuesday in Abuja. Mr. De Souza, however, said […]

National Leader of All Progressives Congress ,APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s Plane Helped Remove Jammeh

National Leader of All Progressives Congress ,APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s Plane Helped Remove Jammeh

Indications have emerged that a plane belonging to the National Leader of All Progressives Congress ,APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was used to fly ex-Gambian President, Mr. Yahaya Jammeh out of the country. Vanguard learnt that the gesture was in furtherance of the reconciliatory efforts of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, in the […]

Gambians Return Home to Breathe ‘Freedom Air’

Gambians Return Home to Breathe ‘Freedom Air’

Gambians who fled the political crisis in the country are returning home following the departure Ex-President Yahya Jammeh and deployment of Senegalese troops. Some 45,000 people fled the country, according to the UN refugee agency, as tensions rose over Jammeh’s refusal to leave office. “We’ve been exile for about six days and we’ve been in […]

Gambia – A Lesson for African Dictators

Gambia – A Lesson for African Dictators

Soon after the peaceful transition of power from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in the US, Gambia’s crisis was also resolved without a single gunshot. The embattled President Yahya Jammeh appeared on national TV announcing his decision “to relinquish the mantle of leadership”. Jammeh’s decision to step down was not only important to his own […]

Senegalese Military Enters Banjul Safeguarding Barrow’s Expected Arrival

Senegalese Military Enters Banjul Safeguarding Barrow’s Expected Arrival

Senegalese troops took up positions in Gambia on Sunday in an effort to provide security following the departure of Ex-President Yahya Jammeh. The arrival of the soldiers was welcomed by hundreds of Banjul residents who came out on the streets to celebrate. The military initiative aims to ensure that the anticipated arrival of President Adama […]

‘No Money in the Coffers, Yahya Jammeh Took it All’ in Gambia Says New President Adama Barrow

‘No Money in the Coffers, Yahya Jammeh Took it All’ in Gambia Says New President Adama Barrow

Speaking on Sengalese radio, elected President Adama Barrow said there appeared to be an absence of state funds following the exit of Yahya Jammeh. The deal Jammeh struck to exit the Gambia may make him untouchable. Gambian ex-President Yahya Jammeh drained state coffers before he fled the country, newly inaugurated President Adama Barrow, said on […]

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