Gambiaj.com – After running for the National Assembly seat in Lower Saloum in 2022 but losing, UDP candidate Halimatou Sowe has now joined the ruling NPP. Miss Sowe’s resignation adds to a series of high-profile defections from the main Gambian opposition political formation to the ruling party.
Gambiaj.com – The U.S., France and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have all called on Senegal to respect the decision of the country’s Constitutional Council, which invalidated President Macky Sall’s decision to postpone the presidential election initially scheduled for the end of February.
The recent ruling by the Senegalese Constitutional Court, canceling President Macky Sall’s delay of the February 25th presidential election, has been met with relief across Senegal, even within the President’s own family.
Senegal’s top court has declared the postponement by President Macky Sall of this month’s elections unconstitutional. The decision nullifies President Sall’s decree and a controversial bill passed by parliament, which had rescheduled the vote to December.
In its decision issued on Thursday (February 15th), the Senegalese Constitutional Council referred to “the impossibility of holding the presidential election on the date originally planned” to February 25.
In a significant development amidst political turmoil, a group of activists who had been detained for several months on various charges related to political activities were temporarily released on Thursday, as confirmed by one of their lawyers to the Senegalese news agency APS.
Gambiaj.com – Despite the recent submission of genocide charges against Israel by the South African ANC government at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Africans have not forgotten the collaboration between Israel and apartheid South Africa, which underscores the intertwined histories of oppression and resistance. Which poses the following question: Is the mass murder unleashed by Israel on Gaza inherent or learned behavior? A contextually brief history of the creation of this bellicose state, Israel, that its imperialist creators can’t even control, is of significant importance.
Gambiaj.com – The government of Sierra Leone, represented by Jerry Torres, National Security Adviser to President Julius Maada Bio, has reportedly enlisted the services of Ifrah Law, a U.S.-based law firm, to conduct an inquiry into the immigration status of President Bio with U.S. authorities.
Gambiaj.com – Ten days after President Macky Sall announced the postponement of the presidential election in Senegal, tensions remain high among the opposition and civil society, despite relative calm in the capital, Dakar. Behind the scenes, efforts are being made to ease tensions through dialogue between the presidency and opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who has been in prison since July.
Gambiaj.com – Two years after a shocking discovery at Gatwick Airport, the identity of a man found frozen in the right-hand wheel of a jet that had arrived from Banjul in The Gambia remains a mystery. The British coroner’s court of West Sussex determined on Wednesday that the man had died of hypothermia.
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