Vanguard Africa claimed its first big success when Adama Barrow won the presidency in the Gambia in 2017...
Vol 60 No 10 |
- GAMBIA
- SENEGAL
At a reception hosted at President Adama Barrow's residence in Banjul BP's Vice-President for new African ventures Jonathan Evans announced the firm's triumphant return to the Gambia after a 30-year absence...
Sources in Banjul say there are worries in government over how the cost of a lengthy legal battle could affect President Adama Barrow's administration...
Her husband former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Banjul at least twice in 2017 and had 'behind closed-door' meetings with President Adama Barrow reportedly advising him on issues including electricity tourism health and agriculture...
However APCL boss Jens Pace met President Adama Barrow on 13 July...
One new player is Vanguard Africa a non-profit campaign organisation which supported the successful opposition coalition in Gambia which produced victory for President Adama Barrow (AC Vol 58 No 3 Jammeh's long goodbye)...
That honour seems to have fallen to Scribe Strategies & Advisors which filed contracts in late-March to 'promote the interests of the legitimate government of President Adama Barrow by introducing the Ambassador of the Gambia to Members of key congressional committees such as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee'...
Jammeh kept pleading to stay longer but on 21 January newly elected President Adama Barrow put his foot down and demanded he leave immediately (AC Vol 57 No 25 Gambia at the cliff-edge)...
However President-elect Adama Barrow has remained silent which has led some to question his handling of the situation...
On 2 December he appeared on television to tell a surprised world that he was conceding defeat by Adama Barrow in the previous day's presidential election...
The UDP has nominated the relatively little-known Adama Barrow a 51-year-old businessman to stand for president...
