Gambia: Is the Barrow Administration Passing the Test of Political Tolerance?

opinion

Every new government must go through two main tests. The first test is one of tolerance of public opinion and the other is the tolerance of public protest. If a government has the capacity to tolerate divergent views and dissenting opinion expressed in a free media, then it passes the first test.

If it has the capacity to tolerate peaceful protests to speak truth to power, then it has passed the second test.

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