Mamudu: The 1997 Constitution creates the office of the Vice President. The President of the Republic appoints the Vice President and acts as the President’s Constitutional successor in case of a vacancy. Still, there is always a pair of contradictions and extremes in picking a Vice President in the Gambia. […]
Politics
Gambia gains Membership in UN Commission on Population and Development
PRESS RELEASE: Washington, D.C. 19 April 2022: In furtherance of the Government of The Gambia’s continued commitment to establishing excellent working relations with its bilateral and multilateral partners, the Permanent Mission of The Gambia to the United Nations in New York is happy to report that it recently got The […]
Here is why Jammeh rejected his alliance with Barrow!
Since the announcement made by the former president Yahya Jammeh on 15th October 2021, prior to the recently held presidential election on 4th December 2021, that he has not approved any alliance between his APRC party and the National People’s Party (NPP), Gambians reacted to it in different ways. The […]
OPINION: Rambo Jatta: A victim turned ‘Jammeh supporter’ who refused to accept the former dictator’s rights violations
ARCHIVE (Re-post): First published on 18th December 2019, on The Point Newspaper. If there is anyone with an experience of Jammeh’s brutality on an entire family, it is no other than Ousman Rambo Jatta, a former local government ward councilor. In his early years of politics [being also the youth […]