Gambia's New President Barrow Names Female VP

Fatoumata Tambajang, a former United Nations Development Program staffer, became a controversial figure last year when she told journalists that outgoing president Yahya Jammeh will be prosecuted for crimes committed by his regime.

  • Gambia:   Barrow Names Woman Vice-President

    DW, 24 January 2017

    President Adama Barrow has appointed as deputy leader a woman who had vowed to prosecute exiled leader Yahya Jammeh. Barrow, still in Senegal, said the appointment was designed to… Read more »

Fatoumata Tambajang, the newly appointed Vice President of Gambia.

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