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Fact check: is report on Barrow’s property ownership in Senegal true?

Claim: Senegalese investigative journalist Pape Ale Niang says incumbent Adama Barrow, tourism minister Hamat Bah own property in Senegal Source: Widely circulated on social media Verdict: false Gambians are heading to polls on December 4, and campaigns on what is a competition of 6 candidates for country’s top job has begun on November 9. Personal attacks, misinformation and disinformation increases with rising political tension. In the last few weeks, a widely circulated message on social media and WhatsApp claims a Senegalese journalists Pape Ale Niang said incumbent Adama Barrow and his tourism minister Hamat Bah had procured properties in Senegal. Claim A widely circulated information attributed...

November 9, 2021Kebba JeffangElection Hub, Factchecking

Fact Check: Coalition Sacks All Non-Mandinkas From Top Gov’t Jobs

Claim: The coalition gov’t sacked non-Mandinkas from top gov’t jobs Source: Ex-leader Yahya Jammeh Verdict: The claim is false. Since Jammeh left for exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017, he has kept a low profile. That changed recently. After the Gambian leader Adama Barrow visited home village of Kanilai, few days after his party signed a coalition agreement with Jammeh’s Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party, Jammeh called his first rally in Kanilai. He distanced himself from Barrow, and a faction of his party that signed an alliance with him, causing in split in APRC. Jammeh’s faction of APRC later joined the Gambia Democratic...

November 8, 2021Kebba JeffangElection Hub, Factchecking

Fact Check: How Right Were Ex-President Jammeh’s Claims In His Recent Phone Call To Supporters At The Gunjur Rally?

In the last few days, Gambian social media sites were saturated with a video recording of a phone call the ex-Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh made to his supporters during a rally in Gunjur on October 23. In his address, Jammeh made several claims about developments he did in the country, that he said were destroyed by President Adama Barrow in 4 years. In this article, we look into the accuracy of those claims. Claim 1: The 2016 election was rigged Source: Ex-president Yahya Jammeh Verdict: Inaccurate Claim President Barrow took over or assumed power after defeating Jammeh at the polls in 2016. The former President rejected the election results,...

October 31, 2021Kebba JeffangElection Hub, Factchecking