Gambia's new speaker of the National Assembly has told RFI that she will remain non-partisan and ensure that the proceedings in the country's parliament are fair. Mariam Jack Denton was sworn-in by President Adama Barrow this week and becomes the first speaker since the departure of former President Yahya Jammeh who ruled Gambia for 22 years.
"I feel highly honoured, it's a great privilege, it's quite a vindication," Denton said in a telephone interview on Friday. She had previously been detained by the authorities under Jammeh and spent time in a notorious prison outside the Gambian capital Banjul.
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