While efforts to end the practice over the last few decades have led to major successes—including banning the practice in dozens of countries and reducing the likeliness of at-risk girls from being cut by 33 percent—the recent attempt in The Gambia to reverse such laws is indicative of the persistence of harmful attitudes that perpetuate FGM.
Gambiaj.com – (BANJUL) – The Gambia’s ambitious transition to democracy started when President Adama Barrow was elected in 2016, ending Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule. But socio-political disagreements are preventing the country from fully breaking away from its autocratic past.
Gambiaj.com – (DAKAR) – In a departure from its governance manifesto titled “Project,” the political party Pastef had pledged to utilize calls for applications for certain positions in the senior civil service and the parapublic sector. However, the first appointments of Directors General of public companies under the Diomaye-Sonko era were made yesterday, Wednesday, April 24, at the conclusion of the cabinet meeting. This move has sparked surprise and disappointment among the Senegalese populace.
The 2024 Presidential election outcome in Senegal, similar to Gambia’s 2016 Presidential election, is monumental- perhaps of earthquake proportions. Outgoing President
The International Court of Justice will soon issue a ruling on precautionary measures calling for stopping Israel’s fighting in Gaza. Israel,
The recent visit of Mayor Rohey Malick Lowe to President Adama Barrow in his native village of Mankamang Kunda, to ‘present’ to him two awards that she had won, and which ceremony was given unprecedented prominence by GRTS, has quite a lot of political significance.
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