Gambia's UDP party names presidential candidate

Gambia’s largest opposition party has named its candidate to challenge longtime President Yahya Jammeh in December’s presidential elections.
United Democratic Party candidate Adama Barrow accepted the nomination Thursday, saying the people of this West African country are yearning for change.

Gambia’s first female presidential candidate calls on Jammeh ‘to go’

Gambia’s first-ever female presidential candidate on Friday said it was time for President Yahya Jammeh “to go”, promising to rejoin the Commonwealth community and set the country on a path to prosperity.Isatou Touray, a development expert and campaigner against female genital mutilation, railed against the “lavish” lifestyle she said Jammeh enjoyed while ruling one of Africa’s poorest nations, and accused him of sowing division between communities.