Barrow off to Bamako to meet ECOWAS leaders at France-Africa Summit
The ECOWAS mediation team has decided to fly out with Gambia’s President-elect Barrow to talk to all ECOWAS Heads of States at an ongoing Summit in Bamako,...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ECOWAS says to continue diplomatic mediation in Gambia
By Alhagie Jobe: The sub-regional bloc, ECOWAS, say they are still pursuing mediation to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in The Gambia where longtime ruler Yahya...
Security Council members’ tour a failure
The ongoing tour by members of the National Security Council of the failed Yahya Jammeh’s government is a total failure, security sources within the entourage has confirmed...
US advices nationals in Gambia to be vigilant or leave country as political crisis...
The United States Mission in Banjul on Friday advised all its nationals in The Gambia to stock up food, be vigilant and take precautionary measures as the...
GDC leader Kandeh renews calls for peaceful transfer of power
The leader of the Opposition Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC), Mama Kandeh has reiterated his call a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Adama Barrow by outgoing President...
ECOWAS leaders to meet in Accra to take ‘major decision’ on Gambia’s political impasse
By Alhagie Jobe: Leaders from the sub-regional bloc, ECOWAS, are meeting in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, this Saturday, January 7th, 2017 to take what they call...
Barrow scolds Jammeh over human rights issues, media crackdown
Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has called on outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to improve on human rights records by releasing political prisoners and re-open the radio stations recently...