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  2. Fatou Camara (journalist) - Wikipedia

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    Fatou Camara (journalist) Fatoumata "Fatu" Camara. Nationality. Gambian. Education. Gambia High School. Occupation (s) Television presenter and journalist. Fatoumata "Fatu" Camara (also Fatou Camara; * 20th century in Banjul ) is a television presenter and journalist from the West African state of The Gambia.

  3. Elections in the Gambia - Wikipedia

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    The Gambia elects on national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The National Assembly has 53 members, 48 members elected for a five-year term and 5 members appointed (the fifth nominated member is the Speaker). The Gambia was a one party dominant state ...

  4. Fatou Bensouda - Wikipedia

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    Occupation. International Criminal Law Prosecutor, diplomat. Profession. Lawyer. Fatou Bom Bensouda ( / fɑːˈtuː bɛnˈsoʊdə /; née Nyang; born 31 January 1961) is a Gambian lawyer and former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), who has served as the Gambian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom since 3 August 2022.

  5. Isatou Touray - Wikipedia

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    Isatou Touray. Isatou Touray (born 17 March 1955) is a Gambian politician, activist, and social reformer. A noted campaigner against female genital mutilation (FGM), she became the first female Gambian presidential candidate in 2016, before dropping out to endorse Adama Barrow and Coalition 2016. She then served in Barrow's cabinet, as trade ...

  6. Gambia rejects an effort to reverse a ban on female genital ...

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    March 18, 2024 at 3:41 PM. ERREKUNDA, Gambia (AP) — Lawmakers in Gambia on Monday rejected, for now, an attempt to repeal a ban on female genital cutting, which would make the West African ...

  7. 2021 Gambian presidential election - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Fatou Jaw-Manneh - Wikipedia

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    Fatou Jaw-Manneh is a Gambian journalist and activist who received political asylum from the United States in 1994 and has lived in the U.S. ever since. She is a well-known member of the Gambian community in the U.S. and runs the popular news and politics website Maafanta.com. She was the first female reporter at the Gambian Daily Observer and is widely known as “Gambia's Iron Lady” and ...

  9. Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission - Wikipedia

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    Other speakers included Ba Tambadou, the Attorney General, Sherif Kijera of The Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations, Fatou Bensouda, the current chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the UN Secretary-General's special representative for West Africa, and Miguel de Serpa Soares, the UN Under ...