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Dawda Jawara. Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara [1] GCMG (16 May 1924 – 27 August 2019 [2] [3]) was a Gambian politician who served as Prime Minister from 1962 to 1970, and then as the first President of The Gambia from 1970 to 1994, when he was deposed . Jawara was born in Barajally, MacCarthy Island Division, the son of Mamma Fatty and Almami Jawara.
The People's Progressive Party is a political party in the Gambia. [3] It was the dominant ruling party of the House of Representatives and the presidency from 1962 to 1994. [4] The president throughout this time period was Dawda Jawara. The People's Progressive Party lost power after the 1994 Gambian coup d'état, a military coup led by young ...
Yahya Abdul-Aziz James Junkung Jammeh (born 25 May 1965) in a village call Kanilai he is a Gambian politician and former military officer, who served as President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017, as well as Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council from 1994 to 1996. Jammeh was born in Kanilai, a village in the Gambia, and is a ...
Same-sex sexual activity is illegal for both men and women in the Gambia. Criminalisation commenced under the colonial rule of the British. The 1933 Criminal Code provides penalties of prison terms of up to fourteen years. In 2014, the country amended its code to impose even harsher penalties of life imprisonment for "aggravated" cases.
Deyda Hydara (June 9, 1946 – December 16, 2004) was a co-founder and primary editor of The Point, a major independent Gambian newspaper. He was also a correspondent for both AFP News Agency and Reporters Without Borders for more than 30 years. Hydara also worked as a Radio presenter in the Gambia called Radio Syd during his early years as a ...
The Daily Observer is a newspaper published in Bakau in Banjul, the Gambia. [1] The paper, Gambia's first daily newspaper, [2] [self-published source] was founded by Mae Gene and Kenneth Best in 1990. [3] Kenneth Best had previously managed another paper called the Daily Observer in Liberia, until the First Liberian Civil War caused him to ...
Mercer Cook. as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Formation. May 18, 1965. Website. U.S. Embassy - Banjul. This is a list of United States ambassadors to the Gambia, the first of who was appointed on May 18, 1965, exactly three months after it attained independence from the United Kingdom .