Gambia voter registration goes past half a million

The Independent Electoral Commission has registered more than half a million Gambians for the December presidential election.

In latest updates by Election House, IEC registered 556,766 Gambians with women continuing to lead men in registering.

The number of women who registered stood at 317,993 while that of the men stood at 238,773, according to IEC’s latest update of the voter registration.

It’s been just three weeks into the voter registration which end in mid-July.