The Government of The Gambia has confirmed that Cameroonian opposition figure Issa Tchiroma Bakary arrived in Banjul on 7 November 2025 and is being hosted temporarily on humanitarian grounds. Bakary was one of the key challengers in Cameroon’s tightly contested presidential election, a vote that...

By Ebrima Baldeh I was at the airport on January 21st, 2017, when Jammeh, who had once claimed no military coup or election could remove him from power, trod on the red carpet and took his flight out of the country. Ah! A sigh of relief...