Tag: politics

News, Opinion, Politics

OPINION: How Mimi Toure’s dream of becoming the first-ever female Speaker of Senegal’s National Assembly faded away!

Drama unfolded at the National Assembly of Senegal last week during the election of Speaker (President) of the former French colony’s 14th Legislature when the ruling coalition Benno Bokk Yaakaar, elected Dr. Amadou Mame Diop as Speaker instead of their head of Campagne Mrs. Aminata Mimi Toure, former Prime Minister […]

News, Politics

Thiowlii Thiowlii: Mimi Toure to set up a political movement dubbed MIMI, plans to contest the 2024 Presidential Election

Senegal’s leading online news site Seneweb is reporting that the former Prime Minister of Senegal (2013-2014) Aminata Toure widely known as Mimi Toure is planning to set up her own political movement called «Mimi» (Mouvement pour l’intégrité, le mérite et l’indépendance), plans to contest 2024 Presidential election.“Mimi” which stands for […]

Opinion

Madi Jobarteh: Where is this Country heading to?

It is seven days today since Malagen released its bombshell report on the fraudulent airport tax which has been illegally imposed on the country by the Government in cahoots with a foreign company, Securiport. The Gambia Government itself has completely ignored the story as we have seen no press release […]

Opinion, Politics

Why Banjul Mayor Needs a Distance from Barrow

Reeling from a bruishing electoral defeat in the April National Assembly (NA) Polls, President Barrow and his National People’s Party (NPP) are looking forward to making up their loss in the 2023 Local Government Elections by all means necessary. In Barrow’s mind, there could not have been any justification why […]