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Shops and other businesses remain closed in urban districts of The Gambia where voting is well underway to elect the country’s new leader for the next five years.
The two frontrunners in The Gambia’s landmark presidential election have urged their compatriots to exercise their voting rights in peace and tranquility and eschew acts that might undermine the credibility of the polls.
Polling has closed in The Gambia’s first presidential election since the fall of Yahya Jammeh with six candidates vying for the country’s top job including incumbent Adama Barrow.
Gambians have resorted to panic-buying hours ahead of a nervy presidential election, which promises to be the closest race for the country’s top job in a generation, APA can report on Friday.
Campaigning for Gambia’s December 4th presidential election has been taking place in a largely carnival atmosphere but beyond this feel-good facade lurks a perceptible cocktail of tension and fear over its possible aftermath.
The Commonwealth has named Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo as head of its election observer mission to The Gambia ahead of the December 4th presidential poll, APA learnt on Monday.
Amnesty International has called on all six contenders to The Gambia’s December 4, 2021 presidential election to commit themselves to a human rights charter submitted to them.
Former Sierra Leonean president Ernest Koroma has presented to President Hakainde Hichilema the final report of the African Union election observer mission into Zambia’s general elections held in August.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has decided it would need to form coalition governments with the opposition in cities where it failed to garner majority seats.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says local government must be used as “a force for good for development” where South Africans “have better service delivery in their communities.”