The bill to replace the Gambia’s flawed 1997 constitution, which included presidential term limits and checks on presidential power was voted down this week in the National Assembly, in a move ...

Banjul — This is not a rhetorical question. Far from it. It is dictated by thought-provoking facts and mitigating circumstances of the current political and legal environment in The Gambia where ...

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Though pleased with the draft’s overall democratic reforms, leaders are frustrated that “Christian rights do not matter” in the West African nation. The Gambia almost had a new constitution.

Football delegates Saturday finally adopted the Gambia Football Association (GFA) Constitution, which will pave the way forward for the process of transferring power from the Normalisaion ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The constitution-drafting process aimed at ushering in The Gambia's third republic has reached an unfortunate dead-end. More than two years after the process began ...

Gambian President Adama Barrow pledged to push through a new constitution that would restrict the number of mandates the West African nation’s leader can serve. “I want the new constitution to ...

Then politically active Muslims started rallying against the secular constitution. “I want Gambia to live in peace, which is a religious peace,” said Omar Jah, a law professor and now an ...

At the core of the country’s transition and stabilisation is revising the 1997 constitution to enable important institutional reforms that will redefine Gambia’s politics and governance ...

A draft Constitution failed to garner enough support Tuesday from lawmakers for a third reading in the Gambia’s National Assembly. When tallied, the vote was 31-42 with three abstentions.

By holding the men in detention for more than three days without charging or releasing them, state forces are breaking the law according to Gambia's constitution. Three women were also arrested in ...