Gambiaj.com – (DAKAR, Senegal) – President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal has taken a decisive step in his presidency by dissolving the National Assembly and scheduling new legislative elections for November 17, 2024.
Gambiaj.com – (DAKAR, Senegal) – (Within a week of being inaugurated in April as Senegal’s youngest president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye named his political mentor, Ousmane Sonko, as prime minister and announced his 25 cabinet appointments.
Gambiaj.com – (BEIJING, China) – The Ministry of Justice of China has expressed its readiness to enhance judicial collaboration with The Gambia, following high-level discussions at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).
Gambiaj.com – (DAKAR, Senegal) — Cheikhouna Keïta, a retired police commissioner, was taken into custody on Friday by the Criminal Investigations Division, Gambiaj.com has learned. The arrest follows comments made by Keïta, which have been deemed defamatory towards President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko.
Gambiaj.com – (BANJUL, The Gambia) – As the Commonwealth prepares for its upcoming Secretary-General election, set to take place during the heads of state or ministerial representatives meeting in Samoa starting October 21, 2024, the race is heating up with candidates from Lesotho, Ghana, and The Gambia vying for the prestigious role.
Gambiaj.com – (DAKAR, Senegal) – In a strategic move that underscores the deepening rift between Senegal’s executive and legislative branches, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has set September 13 as the date for Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko’s General Policy Declaration (DPG).
Gambiaj.com – (BANJUL, The Gambia) – On September 5th, President Adama Barrow’s cabinet was briefed on the preliminary data gathered during The Gambia’s 2024 Population and Housing Census. The census, which was conducted from May 25 to June 14, 2024, marked the country’s first-ever digital census.
Gambiaj.com – (BANJUL, The Gambia) – In an interview on West Coast Radio’s Coffee Time with Peter Gomez, Cherno Njie, a prominent Gambian diaspora figure, voiced his concerns over the ongoing debate surrounding Gambia’s draft constitution, emphasizing the need for key provisions to be maintained.
Gambiaj.com – (BANJUL, The Gambia) – A coalition of concerned Gambians and Commonwealth citizens has voiced strong opposition to the candidacy of Mamadou Tangara, The Gambia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, and Gambians Abroad, for the position of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Gambiaj.com – (BANJUL, The Gambia) – In a significant move toward enhancing transparency and accountability in The Gambia, the Chairperson and members of the newly established Access to Information (ATI) Commission were officially sworn in today.
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