Mixed Reactions As Gambia Beats Nigeria To Win Best Jollof 2023

Jollof rice fans worldwide have taken to social media to share their thoughts about The Gambia emerging winners of the 2023 Jollof competition at the West Africa Food Festival held in Lagos, Nigeria.

Two Military officers arrested in Gambia after coup attempt

Two Gambian military officers have been nabbed for allegedly plotting to remove President Adama Barrow from office.

Illegai migration: Germany to deport 1,500 Gambians

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has confirmed a total of 1,500 Gambians who landed in Germany without documentation will be deported, a joint news conference in Banjul stated on Friday.

Steinmeier said this during his official visit to the West African country that emerged from a tense political standoff early this year.

KABOOM!!! Gambia revokes diplomatic passports of tyrant ex-leader and family

The Gambia has revoked the diplomatic passports of ex-leader Yahya Jammeh and his associates, the foreign ministry said Thursday, as the new government pursues former regime figures it believes embezzled state funds.

Jammeh plundered an estimated $50 million before leaving for exile in Equatorial Guinea in January after 22 years in power, the country’s justice minister announced in May, promising a commission would trace the money.

Freedom at last as Gambia frees nearly 100 prisoners from Jammeh era

Gambian authorities have released 98 prisoners, mostly from the notorious Mile 2 prison, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Friday, as the country seeks to turn a page on the authoritarian era of ousted former president Yahya Jammeh.

The release follows the freeing of about 170 prisoners two weeks ago.

Talk of rewarding friendship! Gambia’s Barrow visits ‘new ally’ Senegal, Jammeh ouster key player.

The Gambia’s President Adama Barrow on Thursday arrived in Senegal, which played a key role in his rise to power by helping force his predecessor Yahya Jammeh from office, an AFP journalist said.

The visit, which is due to run until Saturday, is Barrow’s first official trip abroad as president.

Barrow won his nation’s presidential election in December, but for six weeks Jammeh refused to concede defeat following 22 years of rule.

Gambia’s Barrow replaces armed forces chief

Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has fired the head of the armed forces, General Ousman Badjie, a former loyalist of the ousted government, a military source said Monday.

He was replaced by General Masanneh Kinteh, a special military adviser to Barrow since January.

Welcome back! Gambia to rejoin The Commonwealth after four years

The Gambia is to rejoin The Commonwealth within months - after four years outside the group of 52 states.

The Gambian government withdrew in 2013 under its then leader Yahya Jammeh, who called it a "neo-colonial institution".

But Adama Barrow, who was sworn in as president in January, lived in Britain for three years when he was younger and has said he wants to rekindle ties.

Sigh of relief for Barrow and Gambians as yeah EU gives ‘bankrupt’ Gambia $240m aid.

The European Union announced aid worth 225 million euros ($240 million) on Thursday for The Gambia’s new government as President Adama Barrow said his nation was “virtually bankrupt” due to economic mismanagement by the former regime.

The EU froze assistance to The Gambia in December 2014 over the dire human rights record of ex-president Yahya Jammeh, whose security services were accused by rights groups of extrajudicial killings, torture and forced disappearances.

After over 3 decades, 74-year-old Angolan president Dos Santos agrees to step down. Over to you Zimbabwe's Mugabe

The African sit-tight leaders seem to finally be stepping down gradually!

38 years after, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has confirmed on Friday, February 3, that he will not run in this year’s presidential election.

Although he is stepping down as president of the country, he has said he will retain control of the powerful ruling party, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).

Nigerian troops take over Gambia Army

Even as President Adama Barrow fully takes charge of Gambia, Nigeria’s military personnel has taken over Gambia’s military.

The Forefront understands that the armoury of The Gambian Armed Forces has been completely taken over by troops of the Nigerian Army for security reasons.

President Adama Barrow removes Islamic from Gambia's name

The new Gambia President Adama Barrow has removed the ‘Islamic’ title from the country’s name.

According to Aljazeera, the president made this known at his first news conference since returning to take office on Thursday, January 26.

The country was renamed Islamic Republic of The Gambia by former President Yahya Jammeh on 11 December 2015.

Gambia president Barrow plans massive overhaul, but keeps secret police

Gambian President Adama Barrow said Saturday that every aspect of his tiny west African state would need an overhaul after ex-leader Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule, but that its dread secret police would remain.

Barrow faces an uphill task after taking over from Jammeh, who left behind a dysfunctional economy and allegedly emptied state coffers ahead of his departure.

~Kaboom!!!~ Senegal police arrest Gambia’s ex-prison boss who oversaw Jammeh's opponents torture

Senegalese police said on Friday that they had arrested Gen. Bora Colley, the man who ran Gambia’s prisons, where human rights groups claimed perceived opponents were tortured and in some cases died.

Colley was made the director of prisons by Gambia’s former leader, Yahya Jammeh, who lost an election last month but refused to step down.

Cheers as Gambia's new president Adama Barrow arrives home

The new president of The Gambia, who was unable to take up his post because the incumbent refused to leave office, has been widely cheered as he arrived in the country.

Adama Barrow, a former security guard at Argos, returned to the capital Banjul nearly two months after winning an election.

His predecessor Yahya Jammeh disputed the result and said he would not stand down, bringing the country to the brink of military intervention.

President Barrow wants ECOWAS troops to stay put in Gambia for 6 months. Read more

Gambian President Adama Barrow has requested that troops of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) should remain in his country for the next six months.

ECOWAS Commission President Marcel Alain de Souza, who revealed this yesterday in Abuja, said Barrow would go back to his country from Senegal as soon as it was convenient.

Gambia Bad boy Jammeh ‘allowed to keep’ luxury car collection of 13

Gambian ex-president Yahya Jammeh will be allowed to keep his collection of 13 luxury cars and fly them out to his exiled home in Equatorial Guinea, a spokesman for new president Adama Barrow said Tuesday.

Barrow’s spokesman confirmed to AFP an agreement had been struck to facilitate Jammeh’s exit on Saturday in order to end a weeks-long impasse caused by the ex-leader’s refusal to recognise Barrow’s election victory.

President Adama Barrow due for return to Gambia

Gambia’ s President Adama Barrow will return to Banjul today to begin his tenure, almost 72 hours after long serving serving ruler, Yahya Jammeh went into exile in Equatorial Guinea. 

Barrow, who has been staying in Dakar, the Senegalese capital since last week announced his departure on his Twitter handle and Facebook page today, hours after he announced his decision to pick Fatoumata Tambajang, 68 years old, as vice president.

Jammeh left like a king, APC leader Tinubu's jet flew him out of Gambia. Read...

Details of the peaceful battle to restore democracy in The Gambia were revealed yesterday as Jammeh was actually exiled ceremoniously like a King.

After days of stand-off, former President Yahya Jammeh suddenly agreed to quit office, yielding to last-minute pressure from Guinean President Alpha Conde and his Mauritanian counterpart Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz, who were with him between Friday and Saturday.

Greed and wickedness! Gambia's exiled leader 'virtually emptied' the coffers

Gambia's outgoing leader, Yahya Jammeh, has been accused of emptying the country's banks of 500m Gambian dalasis (£9.2m) in the last two weeks of his reign.

"The coffers are virtually empty," said Mai Ahmed Fatty, one of the coalition's key leaders and special adviser to the new President, Adama Barrow.