PASTEF ditches coalition ahead of parliamentary polls
By Biran Gaye
The PASTEF (African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity) party, led by Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, has officially decided to...
Former President Sall’s APR forms alliance with Wade’s PDS
By Biran Gaye
Former President Macky Sall's APR and Abdoulaye Wade's PDS have announced the establishment of a “grand coalition” with a view to scoop...
Women politicians say inadequate fund deterring their political participation
By Amadou Manjang
Women politicians in rural Gambia said inadequate funding is deterring women's participation in politics, especially contesting in elections in the Gambia.
The duo...
Mayor Bensouda Donates 330 Bags of Cement to Schools, Communities
By Assan Bah
Talib Ahmed Bensouda, Mayor of the Kanifing Municipality on Wednesday, 3rd July 2024, donated three-hundred and thirty (330) bags of cement to several...
ECOWAS Commission Observers Hail Peaceful Conduct of Togolese Parliamentary Elections
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Election Observation Mission for the parliamentary and regional elections in...
Halifa Sallah distinguishes two types of leadership
One geared towards building a free, fair and better society and the other based on ambition
STATEMENT BY PDOIS’ SECRETARY GENERAL ON THE 54th ANNIVERSARY OF...
ECOWAS Election Observers Deployed to Monitor Togolese Elections
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) under the Presidency of Dr. Omar A. Touray said they...
President Bassirou Faye takes oath of office
By Biran Gaye
Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been sworn-in as the fifth president of Senegal yesterday after the country’s Constitutional Council confirmed his presidential election...
Senegal’s President-elect Faye calls for reconciliation, peace
By Biran Gaye
Senegal’s President-elect has in his first victory speech called for national reconciliation and the reconstruction of the bases of their peaceful co-existence...
Amadou Ba concedes, congratulates Bassirou Diomaye Faye
By Biran Gaye
The candidate of Benno Bokk Yakaar has conceded defeat and congratulated Bassirou Diomaye on his election as President Elect of the...
Diomaye leads the polls amid jubilation
By Biran Gaye
The results of Senegal’s presidential election emerging from polling stations at the time of going to press shows Bassirou Diomaye Faye is...
Amadou Ba, Khalifa Sall call for peace, vigilance after voting
By Biran Gaye
The candidate of the Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition, Amadou Ba and former Dakar mayor Khalifa Ababacar Sall have called for peace and...
Senegal votes in hotly contested presidential election
By Biran Gaye
Voters in Senegal are casting ballots to elect their next president from a congested race of nineteen (19) candidates.The delayed election takes...
Senegal’s election body assures transparent vote
Directorate of Elections has assured voters of a transparent and rig-free presidential election on Sunday. About seven million Senegalese are registered to vote in...
President Sall’s candidate Ba pledges non-partisanship presidency
By Biran Gaye
The candidate of President Macky Sall and Benno Book Yakaar has pledged to detach the function of President of the Republic from...
Abdoulaye Wade’’s PDS endorses Bassirou Diomaye Faye
By Biran Gaye
The Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) Friday declared its full support for the Diomaye Faye coalition two days before the presidential election.
The coalition,...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye declares assets
By Biran Gaye
Bassirou Diomaye Faye, designated candidate of the ex-Pastef Party, Friday made a declaration of assets as required by the electoral laws of...
Habib Sy withdraws his candidacy, endorses Diomaye Faye
By Biran Gaye
The former mayor of Linguère and presidential candidate has officially announced the withdrawal of his candidacy for the presidential election next Sunday,...
Police Raid Jammeh’s No To Alliance Meeting
By Nelson Manneh
The Police Intervention Unit (PIU) on Sunday raided and disrupted a meeting organised by the renegade faction of the APRC (Yaya Tamba...
Gambian High Commissioner to Botswana Presents Credentials to President Eric Masisi
By Nelson Manneh
Fatoumata Jahumpa Ceesay, the High Commissioner of The Gambia to Botswana, on Wednesday, 14 February 2024 handed over her credentials to President...