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| Africa Subsaharan |
| New leader gets inaugurated on Gambian soil |
| 2017-02-19 |
| [AA.TR] Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... 's new president Adama Barrow has been inaugurated on home soil after his swearing-in at the Gambian embassy in Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... in January. The 52-year old Gambian leader told thousands of supporters at the country’s Independence Stadium who showed up for both his inauguration and independence celebration that the country has "changed forever". "Gambia has changed forever... No government will ever be able to impose itself against the will of the Gambian people," Barrow said. Barrow promised reforms including the reviewing of the "draconian" media laws and establishment of a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... commission as well as economic reforms. In December, Gambians went to polls and the former property developer Barrow who had no prior experience in holding public office won with a light margin against strongman Yahya Jammeh. |
| Posted by:Fred |