Gambia’s Supreme Court said today that it cannot rule for several months on Jammeh’s challenge against his electoral defeat on 1 December due to a lack of judges.
“We can only hear this matter when we have a full bench of the Supreme Court,” Emmanuel Fagbenle, the court’s chief justice said...
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Gambia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday postponed hearing in a petition filed by outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to challenge the results of the Dec. 1 presidential election which he lost to Adama Barrow.
The court’s registrar said “the case has been adjourned until Jan. 16, since only one of the...
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President Yahaya Jammeh needs to find another way to remain in power beyond next week, as his court case against Adama Barrow’s election has run into a ditch.
Gambia’s Supreme Court said today that it cannot rule for several months on Jammeh’s challenge against his electoral defeat on 1...
Gambian Information Minister Sheriff Bojang has resigned to protest President Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to accept defeat in last month’s presidential election, reports say.
Efforts to contest the results were “an attempt to subvert the express will” of the Gambian people, he said in a statement...
The Presidency has said that President Muhamamdu Buhari-led federal government is ready to evacuate Nigerians in The Gambia if things gets out of hands.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who is optimistic that all will be well said...
Nigerian judges reportedly hired by Gambian dictator, Yahya Jammeh, to help him with election case won't be going to Banjul, The Gambian city for the Supreme Court sitting.
A Nigerian and Gambian legal experts told AFP on Monday that although five Nigerian judges and one from Sierra Leone had...
Nigerian judges have been fingered in the ongoing crisis in Gambia.
Gambian lawyers and members of the opposition have accused President Yahya Jammeh, of using “mercenary judges” from Nigeria, and other officials sent as technical assistants to the country’s judiciary, to hound dissidents...
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President Yahya Jammeh has sacked 12 Gambian ambassadors for telling him to step aside and relinquish power to opposition leader Adama Barrow, a foreign ministry source on Monday told AFP.
Gambia’s ambassadors to China, Britain, Turkey, Senegal, and the United States, as well as the country’s...
The mediating team mandated by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS to intervene in the political impasse brewing up in The Gambia has again schedule to meet with President Yahya Jammeh.
This was part of the outcome of the closed-door session held today at the Presidential...
Gambia's President, Yahya Jammeh has shut down Paradise FM, the fourth radio station to be shut since last week, one of its presenters said on Monday.
This is coming as West African leaders were due to meet in Abuja today to discuss the crisis.
Paradise FM was closed on orders allegedly...
The US embassy in the Gambia has advised US citizens living in Gambia to leave the country as tension continues to rise following whether Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh will step down this January for the President-elect, Adama Barrow to to be sworn-in as the country’s new President, ...
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Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has hired mercenaries in preparation for war as he promised not to step down after losing last month's election.
The West African group of nations Ecowas has threatened to oust Mr Jammeh by force if he does not step down when his mandate ends on 18 January.
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Following the reports that threw social media into frenzy over the rumoured assasination of Gambia's President-elect, Adama Barrow, the President elect, has come out to dispel the rumours confirming he is hale and hearty.
Adama, through his twitter handle (@Adama_barrow) said: 'We would like to...
Embattled Gambia's President, Yahya Jammeh has shut down privately owned radio station Taranga FM that provides access to the President Elect, Adama Barrow and team.
Popular independent Gambian radio station Taranga FM was forced off the air by national security forces Sunday afternoon.
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Gambia President, Yahya Jammeh in a new year message vows not to step down while accusing the Economic Community of West African States bloc (ECOWAS) of declaring a war against his country.
Parts of his new year message read, “I have noticed that there are appeals in some quarters for me to...
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has insisted on Wednesday that he would not leave office in January despite his defeat in an election this month, and called for a new vote.
“Justice must be done and the only way justice can be done is to reorganise the election so that every Gambian votes...
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Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has hit out at regional mediators urging him to step down, saying he will not be intimidated.
The West African regional bloc Ecowas had called on him to honour his initial pledge to accept electoral defeat.
Mr Jammeh, who subsequently said the 1 December poll was...
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Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said he would not step down and nobody can deprieve him of power except Almighty Allah.
He also condemned mediation by West African regional bloc ECOWAS that aims to get him to leave power after he lost a Dec. 1 election to challenger Adama Barrow.
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Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow has told the BBC he will declare himself president on 18 January regardless of President Yahya Jammeh's rejection of the election result.
Mr Barrow said his team was preparing for the event despite security concerns:
"Our position is very very clear. I'm...
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After hours of working hard to convince the Gambia’s defeated President Yahya Jammeh to hand over power, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States left Banjul, the capital city without achieving their goals.
President Jammeh would not renege on challenging the December 1st...
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