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On November 24 the people of The Gambia will decide who rules their country for the next five years. Yahya AJJ Jammeh, the incumbent and leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) party, is being challenged by two opposition candidates: ... [Gambia News]

President Yahya Jammeh has said that neither elections nor a military coup will end his grip on power, stressing that it is only God, who made it possible for him to be President in 1994, who can do so. ... [Gambia News]

A Guinean graduate student at The American University in Cairo (AUC) was arrested 30 April in the Gambian capital of Banjul on charges of threatening national security by spreading ideas inspired by Egypt’s 25 January revolution, friends in Cairo say. Mouctar ... [Gambia News]

Gambian prosecutors on Wednesday charged a former communications minister, who is also a US national, and three others of a plot to overthrow the government of President Yahya Jammeh. Amadou Scatred Janneh and the others will stand trial for ... [Gambia News]

The recently appointed Gambian Minister of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment Abdou Salam Secka on Thursday resigned from the cabinet According to a press release from the office of the president issued here Thursday, Mr. Secka, who was appointed ... [Gambia News]

The Gambia said on Saturday that it does not recognize Alassane Ouattara as president of Cote d’Ivoire after the arrest of his predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo, with the help of the UN and French forces. "The Gambian government will not ... [Gambia News]

Following the defection of Ousman Rambo Jatta, a strongman of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) and councillor for Old Bakau Ward, to the ruling APRC party, The Point yesterday contacted Yankuba Colley, National Mobiliser of the APRC, and Lawyer ... [Gambia News]

The Gambian authorities on Thursday shut the only independent radio station in the nation that has continued to broadcast news, according to local journalists. According to a press release issued by the New York-based media watchdog, Committee to Protect ... [Gambia News]

Gambia’s Justice Minister, Edward Gomez has been quoted issuing threats to exiled journalists and rights defenders, saying that they would be prosecuted if they returned for “painting a grim picture ” of the country. According to a press release ... [Gambia News]

Gambian lawyers are currently boycotting all the courts in the tiny West African nation following a decision by prosecutors at the state law office to charge one of their colleagues, Moses Richards with sedition and giving false information to a ... [Gambia News]