ECOWAS’ Gambia talks ‘failed’
The ECOWAS led talks to end the current political crisis in The Gambia has reportedly failed again as outgoing President Yahya Jammeh still remain defiant and refusing...
African Union says to stop recognizing Jammeh as Gambia’s President from Jan 19
The African Union has announced it will cease to recognise Yahya Jammeh as Gambia's legitimate president as of January 19th, the date he is due to hand...
Nigerian military flight spotted at Banjul Int’l Airport
A Nigerian military flight has been spotted at the Banjul international Airport in Yundum, credible sources have informed The Fatu network
The flight that first landed...
‘No force on earth can stop the inauguration except God’- Mai Fatty
Lawyer Mai Ahmed Fatty, a leading figure in the coalition team has said nothing can stop the inauguration of President-elect Barrow on the 19th January.
“There...
Jammeh’s attorney files Court injunction to stop President-election Barrow been sworn-in
Edward Gomez, the Attorney of Defiant outgoing President Yahya Jammeh and his APRC party on Thursday, filed at the Supreme Court, an interlocutory injunction to stop the...
Gambia: Opposition Spokesman Responds To Jammeh
Halifa Sallah, spokesman of the Gambia’s opposition coalition has again reminded President Yahya Jammeh that he has got no power under the 1997 Constitution of the...
Barrow’s office rectifies Jammeh over Constitution misquotations in Tuesday mid-night message
The Office of the President-elect Adama Barrow has put the records straights following incumbent Yahya Jammeh’s Tuesday’s late night national address in which he misquoted the constitution...
‘President-elect Barrow’s inauguration preparations in full gear’ – Committee chair
James Gomez, the Chairperson of the Inauguration Committee of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow, has confirmed to The Fatu Network about the highest level of preparations for President-elect...
Benin President Talon confirms will attend Barrow’s inauguration with Ivorian Ouattara
By Alhagie Jobe: Benin President Patrice Talon has announced he will attend the inauguration of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow on the 19th, January, in Banjul.
The...
Nigerian MPs ‘to consider asylum for Jammeh’
With six days to go until Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh’s constitutional term in office ends, Nigeria’s House of Representatives is to consider whether the country should grant...
Jammeh opts to lean on Amnesty to end political standoff, softens position at last
By Alhagie Jobe: Gambia’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh who has been defiant of not handing over power since he lost the December President election has finally soften...
Defiant Yahya Jammeh ‘removes’ Youth minister
By Alhagie Jobe: Disgraced outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is still defiant and busy sacking and appointing minister despite few days to the end of his government...
ECOWAS mediators scheduled mission to Banjul pushed to Friday
By Alhagie Jobe: The scheduled High level West African leaders mediation mission led by Nigeria’s President Buhari to visit Banjul on Wednesday, January 11th, has been pushed...
Sallah: ‘Election petition outcome is peripheral issue & cannot hamper Barrow’s inauguration’
The Office of the Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has issued a statement after today’s unsuccessful Supreme Court proceeding insisting that the status and outcome of the Election...
Supreme Court adjourns Jammeh’s petition case, urges him to embrace ECOWAS negotiation
By Alhagie Jobe: Emmanuel Fagbenle, the Chief Justice of The Gambia has adjourned the bogus election results petition case of Yahya Jammeh and his APRC party saying there...
How Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh lost his grip on power
Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh surprised the world on 2 December by accepting that he had lost elections to the relatively unknown Adama Barrow – though he now says...
Former Information Minister Sheriff Bojang jumps down from Jammeh’s sinking gov’t
By Alhagie Jobe: Sheriff Bojang, Gambia’s former Minister of Information and Communication who left the country to neighbouring Senegal jumping from the sinking government of defiant President...
Defiant Jammeh appoints MP Seedy Njie as new Information minister
By Alhagie Jobe: Gambia’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh has appointed a Nominated National Assembly member as the new Minister of Communication and Information Infrastructure with immediate effect,...
Paradise FM radio licences revoked
Paradise FM, a private radio station, in The Gambia has confirmed that the Ministry of Information has revoked its licenses to operate.
The move came barely 24 hours...
3 ECOWAS leaders due in Banjul on Wednesday in ‘final resolution’ efforts
By Alhagie Jobe: Nigerian President Muhammadou Buhari who is also the chief mediator in Gambia’s political impasse will lead another delegation comprising three presidents to Banjul on...