Presidential campaign has entered the seventh day with candidates locked in serious trips in canvassing for votes.

On Monday, all six candidates have a busy schedule with National People’s Party still in Upper River Region for two rallies in Koina and Kulari.

United Democratic Party will be in the Central River Region for rallies in Sarakunda, Arafat, Bakadaji (Nianija) and Batti Ndarr.

Gambia Democratic Congress who only set out on Sunday for campaign will be in Njomen Bantaba, Gengi Wollof, Nioro Tukulor, Conte Bantaba and Wassu in Central River Region.

People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism, PDOIS, will be in Banjul while Essa Faal will be in the Upper River Region in Numyel, Nafuggan, Sarre Jatta, Demba Kunda Kuta and Koto and Koba Kunda.

For National Unity Party, the party will be in Wellingara, Bakadagi and Wassu in Central River Region.

UDP leader Ousainou Darboe has warned President Adama Barrow against any attempt at destroying UDP, as the political row between father and son deepens.

Speaking in Farafenni on Sunday, Mr Darboe said: “You said we are hypocrites and you will wipe out United Democratic Party in this country. But the person who said that which is Adama Barrow… Because he called me by my name and said, ‘my father Ousainou Darboe, I will end United Democratic Party’. And he said it in Farafenni here.

“Adama Barrow I want to remind you the day myself, Lamin Dambung Dibba, Aji Yam Secka and your Karamo Jadama at State House at 5 o’clock, the day I told you we would show anyone who wanted to disintegrate UDP that he cannot do it.

“So if you said you are going to wipe out UDP, I can tell you, you don’t have the competence, the prayers and the intelligence. I can assure you also anyone who wants to wipe out UDP in this country will be wiped out himself. Yahya Jammeh tried it and we saw how he ended.”

The Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has assured presidential candidates and by extension the Gambian people that the December 4^th 2021 presidential election will be free and fair.

Alieu Momarr Njai gave this assurance after the six legible presidential hopefuls agreed to a 14-point code of conduct initiated by the country’s Ministry of Justice and implemented by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, IDEA.

The process is aimed at getting the candidates to sign up to a code of conduct that will ensure a peaceful election.

Halifa Sallah of PDOIS, Ousainu Darboe of UDP, Abdoulie Jammeh of NUP and Essa Faal independent, signed by themselves, while Mamma Kandeh and Adama Barrow were represented by GDC deputy leader Abdoulie Kah and trade minister Seedy Keita respectively.

Mohamed Ibn Chambas the former UN envoy to West Africa was selected as the eminent person to the process assisted by local facilitators Elizabeth Renner and Ousman Yarbo.

The agreement committed the candidates to adhere to the following:

1. to run issue-based political campaigns.
2. to publicly condemn violence, intimidation and political thuggery.
3. to refrain from and condemn the use of religious, sectarian, ethnic and tribal politics in campaigns.
4. to refrain from making or causing others to make in their names or in the name of their parties any public statements, pronouncements, declarations or speeches that have the potential to incite any form of ethnic, tribal or religious sentiment.
5. to strongly condemn all acts of electoral violence whether perpetuated by themselves, their supporters or their opponents.
6. to cooperate with the IEC and other political parties and candidates in ensuring the orderly scheduling of political activities to avoid clashes of political processions, meetings, rallies and other activities.
7. to not engage in vote-buying.
8. to take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure the safety and protection of electoral officers from any form of threats, abuse or violence and to assist in the protection of election materials from wilful damage.
9. to cooperate with the IEC and law enforcement institutions to act professionally and impartially in investigating electoral disputes whether at the polling station or in the community;
10. to accept the results of the election as announced by the chairperson of the IEC;
11. to restrain their supporters from resorting to violence in the aftermath of the elections.
12. to resort to judicial processes to address disputes which may arise from the elections.
13. to commit themselves, their parties and supporters to the monitoring of adherence to this code of conduct by a committee of eminent statesmen and women, traditional and religious leaders; and
14. to take the responsibility of communicating the tenets of the code of conduct to all their followers.

Gambia Radio and Television Services has issued a statement saying it has finalized a programme for coverage of the presidential election in consultation with IEC.

The statement reads: “The Management of the Gambia Radio and Television Services (GRTS) wishes to inform the leaders of all political parties and the general public that the state broadcaster has finalised a programme for coverage of the 2021 Presidential Election in consultation with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), the organiser and referee of the upcoming presidential election.

“During two meetings with representatives of all the candidates in the Election, in the presence of IEC officials, the GRTS Management outlined a fair and equitable programme for coverage of the election campaign.  Each party was allocated 10 minutes of party political broadcast and 20 minutes of campaign highlights. In the presence of party agents, GRTS conducted a ballot of the sequence of broadcasts.

“During our meeting with political party representatives, Management gave them the contact numbers of GRTS staff assigned to supervise the recording and editing of all political material.

“We also informed them the Party Political Broadcasts should be recorded in our studios between 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon from Monday and Friday, and will be aired in two slots – 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

“Campaign Highlights will be broadcast from 8:45 p.m. to 9:55 p.m. and a second lot to be broadcast from 10:45 p.m. – 11:50 p.m.

“In addition to the Party Political Broadcasts and Campaign Highlights, GRTS reporters accompanying the various presidential candidates, have been filing in regular reports on the engagements and statements of the candidates both in our news bulletins and  on Radio programmes such as “The Gambia This Morning” and The Gambia Today”.

“Management also wishes to inform party leaders that for coverage of the election campaign, GRTS deployed extensive resources for coverage of the campaign of each candidate, including a vehicle, a driver and requisite fuel, a reporter, a cameraman, a video editor and a sound recorder plus night allowance for the duration of the campaign. Coverage and broadcast of all material on GRTS is also at no cost to candidates or their parties.

“GRTS, wishes to work with all political parties to ensure equal access to all candidates.  An internal mechanism will be in place in the coming days to channel concerns regarding our coverage of the elections and this will be communicated to party leader.”

Gambia’s Environment Minister has called for a more realistic global plan to end climate change. Lamin B Dibba was addressing the just concluded Conference of the Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow

“It’s important we shift the paradigm from ‘business as usual’ to a more realistic plan for the entire globe. If the richer countries don’t, what will happen? Yes, we will suffer, and the Gambia only emits 0.01% of greenhouse gases. But the consequence, the economic damage, the cost to society … you quantify this,” Dibba said.

He entreated richer countries to finally honour funding commitment made 12 years ago at the Copenhagen Climate Summit (COP-15) in 2009.

“Rich countries must hit their $100bn climate finance target in the last week of COP- 26 or it will be catastrophic for the poorest nations suffering the most from the climate crisis,” the Gambian environment minister warned.

He further noted that the world’s least-developed countries bear the biggest brunt of the impact of climate change even though their contribution to overall climate change is minimal.

The leaders of the wealthiest countries had committed to providing $100bn(£75bn) to finance the fight against climate change.

Poor countries were given about $80bn (£60bn) in climate finance in 2019, the latest year for which full data is available, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Although the small mainland country has been praised for its plans to tackle the climate crisis, Dibba said that without a hefty injection of climate finance and other support it would be difficult for the nation to respond properly.

The Gambia has over the years continued to suffer the impact of climate change. Its farmers have seen crop yields decrease due to irregular rainfall; its tourist industry is grappling with beach erosion; and many residents, particularly the poorest, face regular flooding and other natural disasters.

Dibba calls for greater investment in resilience and adaptation programmes to build the capacity of vulnerable communities to withstand extreme climate events.

Opposition party spokesman Karamo Njie has questioned President Adama Barrow’s decision to pay alkalo’s, claiming that it will compromise their independence. The UDP North Bank Region spokesperson was speaking after President Barrow announced the allocation of salaries to alkalo’s (village heads).

He noted that such a promise which comes a few weeks to the presidential election is tantamount to ‘political inducement’. President Barrow on Tuesday while on campaign tour announced that from January 2022, all village heads will be put on a paid government salary in appreciation of their community service.

“Since he was elected in 2016, he has never mentioned this till today just less than one month before the election. This is a clear case of political inducement. Jawara did not do it. Jammeh did not do it. Barrow did not do it until a few weeks to the election. The question is why now? Gambians are not sleeping,” Njie said

He called on the president to focus on more pressing matters like improving the standard of living, health, education and security sector reforms among others. He used the opportunity to canvass citizens to vote for the UDP led by Ousainu Darboe who he says, “has all the needed experience to lead The Gambia into a better future.”

Gambia Action Party has tapped Jalal Camara as the interim leader of the party as the suspension of Ayatollah Musa Ousainou Yali Batchilly continues.

GAP announced on Saturday it has agreed to back GDC for the December election. Leaders of GAP, GDC and former president Jammeh’s No Alliance Movement met on Sunday to put pen to paper.

New GAP interim leader Jalal Camara signed on behalf of GAP. He was appointed by the party last week.

The party’s leader Batchilly was suspended after he publicly endorsed President Adama Barrow without his party’s consent.

Two children of the same family have died in a fire incident in Bakary Sambouya village leaving villagers in a state of utter shock.

Fire broke out in Sambou Kunda on Friday November 12 between the hours of 8 and 10pm, village development committee secretary Samba Manneh told The Fatu Network.

Ellen Sambou, a two-and-a-half year of girl and James Gomez a one-year old boy were caught in flames resulting in their tragic demise.

Emitting Jassey, a widow and mother of a single parent family of ten children (four males and six females) and Omar Sanyang, a fifteen year old boy also sustained injuries.

The devastating fire also led to the loss of valuable materials such as clothing, food stuff, cash, certificates and results.

The police in collaboration with the Fire and Rescue Service are investigating the cause of the fire.

Funeral services and burial for the killed toddlers is expected to take place on Monday, 15th November, 2021.

Sunday is a packed day for presidential campaign with all six candidates in action.

GDC will finally raise the curtain on their campaign when they cross to Barra for rallies in Ndungu Kebbeh, Kerr Biran, Chissay Majaw, Mbamorry Kunda and Farafenni.

National People’s Party will hold rallies in Gambisara and Basse while PDOIS will spend the day canvassing for votes in Brusubi, Sukuta, Old Yundum, Banjulinding, Kombo Kerewana and Lamin.

Elsewhere, UDP will still be in the North Bank Region with activities in Bantanding Wollof, Kerewan, Salikeni and Farafeni.

For the National Unity Party, the party will be busy at Farafenni, Sabach Njayen, Sara Kunda, Kaur and Chamen Nianija.

Essa Faal will be at Sare Bojo, Wellingaraba, Sotuma Sireh, Sotuma Samba, Kanubeh and Alunhari.

Gambia Action has announced an alliance with Gambia Democratic Congress, carving a separate way to that of suspended leader Musa Ousainou Yali Batchilly.

GAP earlier suspended Batchilly after he flipped to NPP.

The party will now be backing GDC, according to a statement by Senior Administrative Secretary Muhammed Yaffa on Saturday evening.

The statement read: “The Gambia Action Party hereby declares that the party forms coalition with Gambia Democratic Congress for December 4th Presidential Elections and the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding will take place at Baobab tomorrow.

“Meanwhile, the party is calling on all the surrogates, well-wishers and the entire nation to support and vote for Hon Mamma Kandeh of GDC in December 4th Presidential Elections with clear vision and commitment towards national development initiative undertakings. Our collective aims and objectives toward effective service delivery to The Gambian people in the most dignified manner coupled with sovereignty and respect to the shared values shall be ushered by GDC, NAM and GAP coalition.

“As scheduled, Gambia Action Party will join and participate in the nationwide campaign tour starting tomorrow and calls on GAP surrogates around the nation to come together in unison and show support. The campaign itinerary will be shared in all GAP platforms.”

The leader of the Citizens’ Alliance (CA) party, Dr Ismaila Ceesay has expressed his trust in the country’s Judiciary and by extension the entire justice architecture. Dr Ceesay was answering to a question by The Fatu Network during his recent press conference at the party’s office.

The question came after Dr Ceesay made public his party’s move of going to the high court as he seeks to challenge his disqualification by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).

“Yes, we trust the justice system, especially recently, we have seen recent rulings that show the current judicial system is impartial, they follow due process, and they are doing their job.

If we didn’t trust the process, we wouldn’t take it [our case] there, we trust it, that’s why we took it there. So yes, we trust the justice system,” Dr Ceesay said confidently.

He further revealed that the case is now in court, and there shall be a hearing on Tuesday at 1:30 pm. He said the party is focused on that case. After that, they (CA) can now make a decision as to the way forward for the party.

“We feel that our rights have been violated, the IEC did not follow due process in the way they handled our nomination. Therefore, we think the best way is to go to the court and let the court decide. The courts are here for everybody, the law is here for everyone, to protect everybody’s fundamental human rights,” Dr Ceesay said.

By: Dawda Baldeh

President Adama Barrow leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) has vowed to eradicate irregular migration by creating job opportunities for the youth if re-elected in December.

He made this statement on Thursday at Sabal Sanjal, Kaur and Fass (Upper Saloum) during his campaign tour. He said irregular migration has been a major reason why many young people risk their lives to go and seek greener pastures abroad.

President Barrow said he currently has plans to invest fifty million dollars ($50m) in fishing, an action which will be a step towards eradicating irregular migration.

“We have a $50 million project for the fishing industry,” he said. Adding that his government will purchase fishing trollers and other equipment needed for fishing.

According to him, they will build storage facilities for the cooling of fish and other marine resources. He said the youth will be trained to become professional fishermen.

He cited the constant shortage of fish in the markets during festivals blaming it on the lack of citizens engagement in fishing activities.

“If I am re-elected president, my government will change this trend by supporting the youth,” President Barrow promised.

He also committed to the construction of a place where the fishing trollers will be parked.

“We will build storage facilities for the fish. We will purchase all the required equipment and train the youth of this country. The youths of this country need employment and we are ready to support them,” he said.

“We cannot eradicate irregular migration if we do not keep the youth engaged in meaningful work,” he explained. “My government will continue to work hand in gloves with relevant stakeholders so that our goals can be achieved.”

UDP has issued a statement pushing back at criticism levelled against the party for turning to foreign media after boycotting some media houses in The Gambia.

UDP are on a boycott of The Fatu Network and this week, the party announced it is forgoing time allocated to them at GRTS as they accused the IEC of trying to stifle free speech.

Some Gambians have bashed the party after Darboe appeared on TFM of Senegal in a campaign ad.

But in a statement on Saturday, UDP said: “In recent weeks we have received many requests for interviews by foreign media and audiences with some development partners. This is a clear indication that the UDP is the next government in waiting.

“Given the tight schedule, the party leader is, unfortunately, unable to answer positively to all the requests for interviews but will do so at the most convenient time!

“UDP is committed to flying the Gambian flag high and restoring a proper image of the country in and outside our borders.”

UDP leader Ousainou Darboe and his contingent have started making their way to Banjul to cross to Barra for their huge campaign.

Mr Darboe is President Adama Barrow’s main challenger in next month’s election and his campaign officially starts today with a meeting in Fass Njaga Choi.

His supporters gathered at his house in Pipeline which also houses his private office. There, top Imam Bakawsu Fofana prayed for the travelling contingent and declared that the Mr Darboe would win the election.

President Adama Barrow has said he sacked the UDP contingent from his government because they gave him problems – and also said the group that wanted to bring his government to an end in 2019 was headed by his ‘father’ UDP leader Darboe.

Three Years Jotna rolled out a vast campaign against President Barrow’s rule in 2018 and the campaign dramatically collapsed in 2019 after police cracked down on the protesters. The group was then banned.

Speaking at a rally in Farafenni as part of his presidential campaign, the president told citizens: “These people have troubled me. Since 2017 they have been fighting me, since 2017 I could not get my peace from these people. But there is one thing that I say to them that offends them which is ‘only a hypocrite will say the knife that killed the lion cannot kill the chicken’.

“They were in my government and they gave me problems and I sacked them. Tyey said my government would collapse but that was the day my government gained greater strength. They then set a new plot [against my government] and they formed Three Years Jotna.

“Three Years Jotna’s chief executive officer is my own father Alhaji Ousainou Darboe. But when I throw teargas on them and to this day… You know I told my security leaders that it takes a fight to end a quarrel. From that day to now, Three Years Jotna died in this country as if it never existed. And when they realized that plan also failed, my elder entered into the house and said ‘we should come up with a new plan’.

“When they made their new plan, they came out and said ‘let’s remove President Barrow on the 4th of December 2021’. When they came up with that plan, I told them we have now come to a consensus. [That] it’s Gambians who own ‘4th December’. That I don’t own that and they don’t own that and it’s Gambians who own it and so the fight is over.

“I told my officials to release those that were being prosecuted. That the fight is over and since they now said they want to come through the front door and we have agreed to that. But Billahi Wallahi, what we would do to them on the 4^th of December would be worse than what we did to them in Three Years Jotna.”

Imam Bakawsu Fofana was at UDP leader Ousainou Darboe’s office on Saturday morning to pray for the party’s officials as they final get the ball rolling on their campaign.

UDP will cross to Barra at 1pm on Saturday for their presidential campaign – and Imam Fofana has boldly predicted leader Darboe will be president next month.

“If Allah wills it, he (Darboe) is the president next month,” Imam Fofana said at Darboe’s office on Saturday.

According to Imam Fofana, he was invited to Mr Darboe’s office to pray for the party as officials head out for campaign.

He said: “Since the start of this election, no leader visited me to say he wants me to pray for him to become president except Darboe. He came up to my house and yesterday we were in telephone calls that they are travelling today and I should come and pray for them. So it could now be I am UDP’s since they hold me in high regard. I am neutral but the person who thinks of me highly owns me.

“But I love you all and to pray for peace for all of you. I am at UDP’s meeting today since I am worth it for them. And I am praying for them to get what they want and they will get it since Bakawsu is a big marabout. And next month you all will say that Bakawsu is indeed a marabout whose prayers do come to pass since you will get what you want.”

PDOIS leader Halifa Sallah has accepted to participate in a big debate involving the country’s presidential candidates, according to the Commission on Political Debates.

The group is organizing a debate of the presidential candidates and the independent Essa Faal and NUP’s Abdoulie Jammeh are the first to confirm their participation.

PDOIS’ Halifa Sallah is the latest to confirm his participation, according to CPD on Saturday.

Next month’s presidential election features six candidates including incumbent President Adama Barrow.

Presidential campaign has entered the fifth day with PDOIS, UDP, NUP and Essa Faal all in action on Saturday.

UDP has spent the past four days making courtesy visits and caravans but things are finally set to get serious for the party as they head out to Barra. The party will hold meeetings in Fass Njaga Choi and Aljamdu.

For PDOIS, the party will embark on a caravan in Kitty, Siffoe, Kartong, Gunjur, Sanyang, Tujereng, Batokunku and Tanji. The party will hold a rally in Brufut on Saturday evening.

The National Unity Party will spend the day holding rallies in No Kunda and Katchang.

For Essa Faal, he will be at Wassu, Jarumeh Koto, Lamin Koto, Janjangbureh, Boraba and a rally in Bansang.

Former vice president Fatoumatta Jallow Tambajang has issued a statement of peace over next month’s election, as a senior citizen.

Below is her statement in full read at a news conference on Friday;

Fellow Gambians in The Gambia and Diaspora, I  have the honor, privilege and great pleasure to send you this present peace message with my warmest greetings in my capacity as senior citizen; as your Former Vice President, as Co-Chairperson of Coalition 2016, a Peace Mediator and Human Rights Defender.

The peace message is drawn from my religious obligation combined with my responsibility as senior citizen and commitment to always promote the perseveration of our National Heritage of Democracy, Unity, Stability And Peace For the Advancement of our country, The Gambia. It is important to recognize that this Heritage is born from the solid foundation for democracy, peace, and social cohesion, that was built by our visionary forefathers for the advancement of our country. Fellow Gambians, this Heritage must remain our guiding principle to safeguard our unity, freedom and peace because in the absence of these values we cannot advance our country.

Fellow Gambians, as we recently conclude the unprecedentedly most contested presidential nominations of twenty-six (26) in our country and at the dawn of the presidential campaigns, it is important that I humbly call you to preserve our national heritage of unity, peace and stability for the paramount advancement of our country, The Gambia.

It is therefore your responsibility to serve as ambassadors and be national pride by upholding our National Heritage which is the bedrock of our National Anthem calling us to live in unity, freedom and peace each day as a nation with one destiny. Being ambassadors also requires you to  uphold our determination, as a nation, to build The Gambia We Want after our collective and victorious fight for the democratic and peaceful change on 1st December 2016 against the 22 years of brutal regime and its bad governance.

Fellow Gambians, in upholding your ambassadorship, I would encourage you to be the change you want for our country by respecting our constitutional, legal and democratic values as well as our cohesive social fabric during this highly tensed presidential campaigns and ensuing presidential election. Please avoid politics to destroy our shared destiny and mission to achieve the democratic, just, peaceful and prosperous Gambia We Want and by extension the Africa and global community we want by respecting zero tolerance to the increasing disrespect for political leaders, ethnic-based hate speech, fake news and political violence. You must also bear in mind that the absence of these values would have negative consequences on the region and world at large because we all share the common goal of making and living in a democratic, just, prosperous and an interconnected global community.

In discharging your good citizenship and moral responsibility to protect our National Heritage of unity, peace and stability for the paramount advancement and protection of the globally respected good image of our country, you must nurture the emerging democratic environment, which we fought for under the auspice of Coalition 2016 against the 22 year brutal autocratic regime.  Such a stance will help us to achieve our common goal of “Never Again” through  national reconciliation, unity, peace and stability in the paramount interest of  advancing our country. This shows our commitment to protect our peaceful co-existence and to move our country in the democratic, just and prosperous path we want.

At this juncture, history obliges me to pay tribute to Coalition 2016 because of their exceptional courage and sacrifice in engineering the democratic and peaceful change for the paramount interest of building  a solid foundation for good governance, social cohesion, sustainable peace and shared prosperity for The Gambia. I also pay tribute to all the professional organizations and the friends of the Gambia who bravely supported the cause of the change.

Fellow Gambians I also deem it human and professional to seize this opportunity to ask you to give a minute of silent prayer for all those who suffered, migrated to foreign lands and lost their lives during those bleak years just for exercising their inalienable rights and constitutional rights to contribute to the liberation of our dear country, The Gambia.

Fellow Gambians, in exercising your constitutional and political rights to campaign and vote for the presidential candidate of your choice, It is important that you do so based on principles and values for political integrity and democratic governance, respect for the rule of law, respect for people’s and human rights and equal development opportunities which are  the paramount interest of our country. You must also exhort all others to cast their votes based on these values. I will vote for the Candidate of my choice based on these principles and values in the paramount interest of our country.

Fellow Gambians, in observing your democratic and peaceful presidential election you must exercise tolerance and constitutional right to vote peacefully and massively, as buttressed by the recently signed Inter Party (IPC) Peace Accord. It is important to appreciate that voting peacefully and massively will give our unprecedented presidential election its deserving credence and milestone in the history of our nation.

It also crucial to protect your votes peacefully by being alert to the entire voting process in order to ensure a free, fair and transparent election. Please return peacefully to your families after voting to listen to the election results and respect the results to be declared by IEC in collaboration with the regional and international observers.

At this juncture, I wish to commend the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), under the able leadership of Honorable Alhaji Alieu Momar Njie, for their success in creating the enabling environment for the unprecedented and peaceful nominations of twenty-six (26) presidential candidates for the 4th December 2021, under a constraining Electoral Act, decreed by the autocratic regime.

I also commend the twenty-six (26) presidential aspirants and their diverse militants for contributing to the peaceful presidential nomination and celebration processes of their candidates, which took place from 30th October through 4th November 2021. These aspirants all share a common goal and commitment to serve our country.

I also deem it important to acknowledge the significant contribution of the security forces for maintaining peaceful and orderly nominations and celebrations processes under enormous. In the same vein, I  thank the media fraternity for its exceptional performance in covering and disseminating the nominations and celebrations processes as well as the peaceful Gambian ambiance to the outside world. It also worth acknowledging the opportunity they gave to  presidential candidates to share their respective agenda and mobilize support

In concluding my peace message,  I wish to encourage you to pledge to serve as ambassadors for democracy and our national heritage for peace, unity and stability by remaining law abiding and the envy of our country, our African region and the world at large.  it is therefore incumbent on you to respect the spirit and letter of our National Anthem which calls for our collective firm pledge and promise to strive, work and pray so that all may live in unity, freedom and peace each day as well as for God to keep us in our homeland ever true.

Fellow Gambians it is equally important to appreciate  that peace, stability and progress in our country will contribute to the peace, stability and progress of our African region and the world at large because we share a common goal of making and living in a democratic, just, peaceful and prosperous continent and global community.

On this note, I thank the entire media fraternity for attending the present press conference in the paramount interest of spreading the peace message. I now  pray that God The Almighty and The Compassionate blesses the listeners readers and communicators of this peace messages by winning their hearts and minds as well as  making them ambassadors of peace in the paramount interest of our country and extension our Africa region and the world at large.

Citizens’ Alliance’s lawsuit against the Independent Electoral Commission will be heard next Tuesday, according to officials.

CA held a news conference on Friday where leader Dr Ismaila Ceesay announced the legal action.

The case is before the Supreme Court and will be heard on Tuesday, according to Dr Ceesay.