The Gambia’s National Assembly rejected a proposed change to the Public Order Act, a private member bill filed by Hon. Sulayman Saho, the parliament’s Deputy Minority Leader and Member for Central Baddibu, in a heated debate on Tuesday.
The United Kingdom renewed its list of sanctioned individuals on Monday, including The Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh, his wife Zineb Jammeh, and former National Intelligence Agency chief Yankuba Badjie.
The International Bar Association (IBA)-founded Eyewitness to Atrocities (eyewitness) has announced that Fatou Bensouda, the former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has joined its Board of Trustees. Ms. Bensouda has been recognized for her outstanding contributions to international justice.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), over sixty migrants are thought to have perished in a shipwreck off the
Three tons of cocaine were intercepted by the Senegalese navy on a ship traveling off the coast of Senegal with a crew of seven people.
President Adama Barrow and his government will repeal the Public Enterprise Act. The decision was made during Thursday’s cabinet meeting. Other choices made during the meeting included modifying the National Audit Office Act and addressing a number of other concerns aimed at improving tax base revenue.
Four Senegalese army personnel were killed on Thursday after their vehicle collided with an anti-tank mine near Kalathiay. The soldiers who died were part of a paratrooper detachment returning from a mission on the Diokadou-Kadialock axis, in Sindian’s department of Bignona, near the border with Gambia.
The withdrawal of Ousmane Sonko from the electoral rolls was overturned today by the Dakar district court. On Tuesday, the court
The death has been announced of former Police Anti crime Unit Chief, Gorgi Mboob, early this Wednesday morning. According to his relatives, Gorgui Mboob has been battling with a sickness over the past few months, keeping him away from work.
West African leaders agreed on Sunday to form a new committee to talk with Niger’s military junta, making it at least the third committee formed by the regional group, ECOWAS, to negotiate with the military authorities who deposed President Mohamed Bazoum in a coup in July.
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