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Foroyaa. Foroyaa is a newspaper located in Serrekunda, the Gambia. It was first launched in July 1987, and is owned by the People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), an opposition political party that was instrumental in bringing the downfall of ex-president Yahya Jammeh in the 1 December 2016 election. [1] [2]
This is a list of newspapers currently published in The Gambia ... Foroyaa; News websites. Freedom Newspaper – online; The Standard – online; The Daily News ...
Senegambia Confederation. 2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis. ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia. Gambia portal. v. t. e. The 2014 Gambian coup d'état attempt broke out during the night of 30 December 2014, when gunfire erupted in the Gambian capital of Banjul .
It began publishing its own newspaper, Foroyaa, in July 1987, where it was critical of the pro-Western foreign policy of Dawda Jawara, and opposed the Senegambia Confederation. In 1987, it put forward five candidates in the parliamentary election, but all were defeated. In 1992, it put forward 14 candidates, but again, all were defeated.
The first case of COVID-19 in The Gambia was reported on 17 March and received treatment at MRC Unit The Gambia's specialist clinic in Fajara. The patient was a woman in her thirties who had travelled to The Gambia from the United Kingdom on 15 March, and had gone into self-isolation after feeling feverish. The Ministry of Health said it was in ...
The High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to The Gambia is the United Kingdom 's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of The Gambia . Until 2013 The Gambia was a member of the Commonwealth and the United Kingdom's representative was a High Commissioner. On 2 October 2013 the Gambian government announced that the country was to ...
v. t. e. Presidential elections were held in the Gambia on 4 December 2021. [1] The result was a victory for incumbent President Adama Barrow of the National People's Party, who received 53% of the vote, defeating five other candidates.
The Gambia Press Union then published a statement criticizing the lack of press freedom in Gambia, the stalled progress of the investigation, and the president's remarks, which the union called "inappropriate". The statement ran in The Point and a weekly newspaper, Foroyaa, on 11 June.