Jammeh Steps Down At last, Flees The Gambia
President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow has confirmed that defeated president Yayah Jammeh has stepped down. Barrow, on his twitter handle on Friday, @adama_barrow said:...
Category: Africa
Finally, Gambia’s Jammeh Set to Step Down
Gambia’s outgoing leader, Yahaya Jammeh, will finally leave power for internationally-recognized Adama Barrow, after failing three deadlines, a report says. A France24 journalist in The...
BREAKING NEWS: Barrow sworn in as Gambian president
Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow took the oath of office in the country’s embassy in Senegal on Thursday. Barrow was sworn in days after seeking...
Gambia: Nigerian Air Force Deploys 200 Men, Fighter Jets
Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has deployed to Senegal, a standby force tasked by ECOWAS Heads of State to enforce the December 1, 2016 election mandate...
Jammeh gets three-month tenure extension
Gambia’s National Assembly Wednesday passed a resolution that gave the incumbent president Yahya Jammeh a three-month tenure extension, Reuters reported quoting Gambian state television. Jammeh...
Troops, Nigerian warship head for Gambia to sack Jammeh
Nigeria soldiers will, on Wednesday (today), arrive at a base of the Economic Community of West African States troops in Senegal to ensure that President...
Gambia: Supreme Court Truncates Jammeh’s Ploy to Remain in Office legally
The move by outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to stop the inauguration of the President-elect Adama Barrow suffered a major setback on Monday as the...
Obama Extends Sanctions In Hostile Goodbye to Zimbabwe’s Mugabe
Following President Robert Mugabe sarcastically proposing marriage to President Barack Obama in the wake of the legalization of gay marriage, to Obama excluding the Zimbabwean...
ECOWAS Defence Chiefs Meet, Prepares Military Action Against Jammeh
The Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff, Abayomi Olonisakin, on Saturday hosted colleagues from other West African countries as ECOWAS steps up preparation for a possible...
25,800 Children From Nigeria, 3 Others, Arrived Italy by Themselves in 2016 – UNICEF
No fewer than 25,800 unaccompanied or separated children mainly from four African countries – Egypt, Eritrea, Nigeria and the Gambia — arrived Italy by sea...