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Gambia Bar Association, GBA, has protested against the appointment of four High Court judges. The newly appointed Nigerian judges are Justice Edward Ogar, Justice Mathias Olusegun Agboola, Justice Simeon Abi and Justice Matins U. Okoi.
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Gambia’s president Adama Barrow has announced the country’s official name will no longer contain the word “Islamic”, which had been added by Jammeh in 2015. In his first press conference since taking over as leader,
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African troops entered The Gambia on Thursday to bolster its new President Adama Barrow, as Gambians erupted in celebration at his inauguration to succeed longtime leader Yahya Jammeh, who has refused to quit. Senegalese forces
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The man who won The Gambia's disputed election says he will be sworn in as president at the country's embassy in neighbouring Senegal. The message, posted on Adama Barrow's social media accounts, invited the general
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has deployed to Senegal as part of Nigerian contingent of Economic Community of West African States Military Intervention in Gambia (ECOMIG) – a standby force tasked by ECOWAS Heads of
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Gambia’s army chief, Ousman Badjie, has said he would not order his men to fight other African troops if they enter the Gambian territory. The Army chief says his troops will surrender to ECOWAS forces.
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has given the embattled President of The Gambia, Mr. Yahya Jammeh, till midnight tomorrow to vacate office and hand over power to the country’s President-Elect, Mr. Adama
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Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh will be forcefully removed by a Senegal led military intervention if he refuses to leave office after his tenure expires on January 19, 2016. BBC reports that "Stand-by forces" are on
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Several African leaders including President Muhammadu Buhari, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Ghana's President John Mahama, are presently in Gambia to plead with President Yahya Jammeh to concede defeat. President Yahya Jammeh showed his inked
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Gambia says it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court in The Hague — the third nation to do so this month. The small West African country alleges that the court is biased against Africans.
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