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Abdoulie Bojang
Abdoulie Bojang is a Gambian politician who was is the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gambia from 2010 to 2017. Early life Bojang worked as a teacher before becoming a politician. Political career Bojang was nominated as a member of the National Assembly following the 2007 parliamentary election. He was elected as Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gambia on 8 February 2007 before his appointment as Speaker on 12 November 2010. He was nominated to serve as Speaker by Fabakary Jatta Fabakary Tombong Jatta (born 16 November 1952) is a Gambian politician who has served as Speaker of the National Assembly since 2022 and the leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) since 2017. Early life and ..., the Majority Leader. He was unanimously re-elected to serve as Speaker following the 2012 election. References Living people Gambian politicians Speakers of the National Assembly of the Gambia Year of birth missin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariam Jack-Denton
Mariam Jack-Denton (born 29 December 1955), also known as Ajaratou Mariam Denton, is a Gambian lawyer and politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gambia from April 2017 to April 2022. Early life and legal career Jack-Denton was born in 1955, the daughter of Sir Alieu Sulayman Jack, who was a Gambian politician and the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1962 to 1972. Her brother, Sulayman Bun Jack, was a permanent secretary at the Department of Defence in Sir Dawda Jawara's government and is currently a British citizen. Jack-Denton trained as a barrister and became the first female Gambian to be called to the bar in the early 1980s. She worked as a state counsel and senior state counsel before becoming a legal advisor to the Governor of the Central Bank of The Gambia. She lost her job following the 1994 coup d'état and began an independent practice. Her barrister's chambers are based at Serign Modou Sillah Street, Banjul. She also wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatou Mbye
Fatou may refer to: People * Aminata Fatou Diallo (born 1995), French footballer * Cecilia Fatou-Berre (1901 – 1989), religious sister * Fatou Baldeh (born 1983), Gambian women's rights activist * Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer and former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court * Fatou Bintou Fall (born 1981), Senegalese athlete * Fatou Camara (journalist), Gambian journalist * Fatou Coulibaly (born 1987), Ivorian footballer * Fatou Diagne (born 1996), Senegalese basketball player * Fatou Diatta, Senegalese rapper and activist * Fatou Dieng (athlete) (born 1983), Mauritanian sprint athlete * Fatou Dieng (basketball) (born 1983), Senegalese basketball player * Fatou Diome, French-Senegalese writer * Fatou Dioup (born 1994), Mauritanian footballer * Fatou Jagne, Gambian jurist * Fatou Jallow, Gambian model * Fatou Jaw-Manneh, Gambian journalist * Fatou Kandé Senghor (born 1971), Senegalese film director * Fatou Kanteh (born 1997), Gambian footballer * Fatou Keïta (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahya Jammeh
Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh (born 25 May 1965) is a Gambian politician and former military officer who was the leader of The Gambia from 1994 to 2017, firstly as chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) from 1994 to 1996 and then as President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017. Jammeh was born in Kanilai, in The Gambia, and is a Muslim of the Jola ethnic group. He attended Gambia High School in Banjul from 1978 to 1983 and served in the Gambian National Gendarmerie from 1984 to 1989. He was then commissioned as an officer of the Gambian National Army, commanding the Military Police from 1992 to 1994. In July 1994, he led a bloodless coup d'etat that overthrew the government of Sir Dawda Jawara and installed himself as chairman of AFPRC, a military junta, and ruled by decree until his election as president in 1996. Jammeh was re-elected as president in 2001, 2006 and 2011, but lost to Adama Barrow in 2016. His time in office saw the authorit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adama Barrow
Adama Barrow ( ff, 𞤀𞥄𞤣𞤢𞤥𞤢 𞤄𞤢𞥄𞤪𞤮, Aadama Baaro, born 15 February 1965) is a Gambian politician and real estate developer who has served as President of the Gambia since 2017. Born in Mankamang Kunda, a village near Basse Santa Su, he attended Crab Island Secondary School and the Muslim High School, the latter on a scholarship. He then worked for Alhagie Musa Njie & Sons, a Gambian energy company, where he became a sales manager. Moving to London in the early 2000s, Barrow studied for qualifications in real estate and concurrently worked as a security guard for Argos. After returning to the Gambia in 2006, he founded Majum Real Estate and was the CEO until 2016. He became the treasurer of the United Democratic Party, an opposition party, and then became party leader in September 2016 after the previous leader was jailed. Barrow was then chosen as the UDP candidate in the 2016 presidential election. It was later announced that he would stand as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of The Gambia
The National Assembly of the Gambia is the unicameral legislature of the Gambia. The authorisation for the National Assembly lies in Chapter VII of the Constitution of the Gambia. It is composed of 53 members directly elected through first past the post, and a further five members appointed by the President. Composition and electoral system The National Assembly is unicameral and consists of 58 members who serve a five-year term. 53 members are directly elected while the remaining five are appointed by the President. Members are elected in single-member constituencies using the simple majority, or first-past-the-post system. History Legislative representation based on universal adult suffrage in the Gambia began in May 1962, when elections were held for a 32-seat House of Representatives. These elections were won by the People's Progressive Party (PPP), which was led by Dawda Jawara. After independence in 1965, the PPP continued to dominate the House of Representatives by w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For Patriotic Reorientation And Construction
The Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) is a political party in The Gambia. Founded by army officers who staged a coup in 1994, it was the dominant ruling party from 1996 until 2016 with president Yahya Jammeh. History It was formed in 1996 to support army leader Yahya Jammeh's campaign for the 1996 elections. It generally garners high support among voters from Jammeh's Jola ethnic group. Most appointed APRC government officials were from this group as well. Jammeh won the 2001 presidential elections with 52.8% of the popular vote. In National Assembly elections in 2002, the party won 45 of 48 seats, 33 of them unopposed. The elections were boycotted by the oppositional United Democratic Party. APRC candidate and incumbent Yahya Jammeh won a third five-year term in presidential elections held on 22 September 2006, receiving 67.3% of the vote. The APRC won 42 of 48 seats in the 25 January 2007 National Assembly election and 43 of 48 seats in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Gambian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Gambia on 25 January 2007. Forty-eight members of the National Assembly were elected, with another five being appointed by the President."Gambia's ruling party wins majority" Al Jazeera, January 26, 2007. The result was a victory for the ruling (APRC), which won 42 of the 48 seats. After the elections, President said that "constituencies that voted the opp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabakary Jatta
Fabakary Tombong Jatta (born 16 November 1952) is a Gambian politician who has served as Speaker of the National Assembly since 2022 and the leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) since 2017. Early life and career Jatta was born on 16 November 1952 in Albreda, Gambia. He was educated at Armitage High School and Yundum College (1970–1973). He later worked as a teacher in Bansang from 1973 to 1977 and at Crab Island Junior Secondary School, Banjul from 1977 to 1979, before joining Nigeria Airways, where he became the district accountant. Political career During the Gambian First Republic (1970–1974), he supported the National Convention Party and was taken to court for allegedly registering to vote in two different constituencies, which makes him look antipathy to the People's Progressive Party. He joined the APRC party on its establishment in 1996. Jatta was elected as the National Assembly Member (NAM) for Serekunda East in the 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Gambian Politicians
Gambian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of the Gambia * Gambian people, a person from the Gambia, or of Gambian descent * Culture of the Gambia * Gambian cuisine See also * *Languages of the Gambia In The Gambia, Mandinka is spoken as a first language by 38% of the population, Pulaar by 21%, Wolof by 18%, Soninke by 9 percent, Jola by 4.5 percent, Serer by 2.4 percent, Manjak and Bainouk by 1.6 percent each, Portuguese Creole by 1 perc ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
