By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – The United Democratic Party and Gambia Moral Congress alliance have rejected the results of the 24th November presidential election announced by the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission. In a preliminary statement issued Friday, shortly after the results were announced, Ousainou Darboe, leader of the United Democratic Party, described the results as bogus, fraudulent and of constituting what he called a capricious usurpation of the will of the people. Below we reproduce the full text of the UDP-GMC alliance statement: The UDP-GMC United Alliance vehemently and unconditionally rejects the results of the just concluded Presidential... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, November 28th 2011 |
By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – President Yahya Jammeh on Friday secured a new five-year term after the Independent Electoral Commission declared him winner of 24th November 2011 presidential election. Results announced by the returning officer and Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Mustapha L. Carayol, showed Jammeh polled 72% of the total votes cas,t while main opposition leader Ousainou Darboe polled 17%. Independent candidate Hamat Bah scored 11% of the total votes cast. Voter turnout was 83%, showing a massive jump from that of the 2006 elections, which was about 59%. According to the IEC chairman, out of a total... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, November 28th 2011 |
…. As they head to the polls tomorrow – By Sainey M.K. Marenah, Shout- Africa Chief Correspondent in The Gambia – A total number of 796,929 (Seven Hundred and Ninety Six Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenty-nine) registered Gambian voters will tomorrow go to the polls to elect a President to steer the affairs of this country for the next five years. Three aspirants namely, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh of the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction (APRC), Ousainou Darboe of the main opposition United Democratic Party and Hamat NK Bah, an independent candidate standing under the banner of an opposition... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 |
… – says IEC chairman as international and domestic observers are briefed – By Sainey M.K. Marenah – Shout-Africa.com Chief Correspondent In Banjul – The Gambia’s election system is very transparent, and one of the best in the world, Mustapha Carayol, chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), yesterday told international and domestic observers. Addressing the observers at a briefing session held at the Paradise Suites Hotel, Chairman Carayol explained that the IEC was established under chapter 5 section 42 of the constitution of the Republic of The Gambia, and its mandate under the constitution and electoral laws include the registration of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 |
By Shout-Africa.com Gambia Correspondent – Incumbent President Yahya Jammeh Wednesday told his ruling APRC supporters that what the Gambia needs at the moment is the “politics of construction and not politics of violence”, reiterating his earlier call for a violence-free election on 24th November. Jammeh, 46, is seeking a fourth term of office, and he was speaking Wednesday at a political rally held in Basse in the Upper River Region, as part of his campaign for the presidential election. According to him, the politics of violence, insults, intimidation or trouble has no place in Gambian society, adding that his supporters... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, November 20th 2011 |
