STATEMENT BY THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA ON THE ANNULMENT OF RESULTS OF THE GAMBIA’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BY THE OUT-GOING PRESIDENT ON 9 DECEMBER 2016 On 1 December 2016, Gambians went to the polls and voted in the country’s Presidential Election. On 2 December 2016, the […]

The Gambia’s security forces have taken over the headquarters of the electoral commission, its chairman says, as the country’s president refuses to accept his loss in recent elections. Alieu Momar Njai told the BBC that staff were barred from entering. President Yahya Jammeh initially conceded defeat to Adama Barrow in […]

Statement by Gambian Professionals on President Jammeh’s Rejection of the 2016 Presidential Election Results Fellow Gambians: We are a group of concerned Gambian professionals mostly living or working abroad. Although we each sign this statement in our individual capacities, we are united in our love for the Gambia our homeland, […]

President Yahya Jammeh’s statement announcing the annulment of December 1st presidential election has been greeted with mountains of condemnations. The Gambia’s Bar Association said the action is tantamont to treason under the provisions of Section 6(1) of the 1997 Constitution. Read below the Bar Association’s statement read by interim president […]

Dear Editors, Please do not allow attention seeking despots like Samsideen Sarr and others to use your credible forums as mediums of expressions for their ignorant and stupid illegitimate propaganda of defending an idiot like Yaya Jammeh. Is it not the same Samsideen Sarr who was trying to play double […]

Pan African Lawyers’ Union (PALU) Statement on the situation in The Republic of The Gambia   The Pan African Lawyers’ Union (PALU) congratulates the people of The Republic of The Gambia for holding free, fair, credible and orderly elections on 1st December 2016, and for maintaining peace, law and order […]

By Baba Galleh Jallow One cannot help but feel a warm sense of pride at being a Gambian on the eve of 2017. Against the odds, Gambians have voted Yahya Jammeh out of office after inspiring the leaders of their political parties to present a united front against Jammeh’s dictatorship […]

A former Gambian minister has advised defeated President Yahya Jammeh to “peacefully hand over power to the winner of December 1st election and “avoid sliding the country into sixes and sevens.” “I am advising President Jammeh to swallow his pride and peacefully hand over power to the President-elect Adama Barrow,” […]

The language we should all be speaking is that “Yahya Jammeh is wanted dead or alive”. Any negotiation or going to a stupid court is a waste of time and resources. Jammeh going to court to contest the election results is a form of legitimizing him because he has machinery […]

No, he is not blinking. Yaya knows exactly what he wants. He created this chaos to put his demands at such a high level and expected to get easy passage/amnesty in his negotiations. He is so humiliated and wants to feel important because he knows the international community will not […]

The leader of the opposition Gambia Democratic Congress has advosed President Yahya Jammeh to blink and graciously accept defeat. Mama Kandeh describes December 1st contest as “the most transparent election in the whole world.” Yahya Jammeh, who had earlier conceded defeat, faulted the Independent Electoral Commission for organising a rigged […]

This was not unexpected and commentators had suggested that is exactly what would happen. Jammeh had declared that he would “rule for a billion years” and mere poverty stricken voters would not dethrone him. The so-called “annulment” is not just unlawful, but it is also treason because Jammeh has sworn […]