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Oley Dibba-Wadda is a Gambian activist. She is president and CEO of the Gam Africa Institute for Leadership (GAIL) She was a 2019 Amujae Initiative fellow. [1] [2]
Dibba-Wadda graduated from the University of East Anglia. [3]
She was Executive Secretary of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa. [4] She was the Executive Director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists. She was Executive Director of Femmes Africa Solidarité. She is Director of Human Capital, at the African Development Bank. [5] [3] [6] [7] [8] She publicly joined the Gambian United Democratic Party in early January 2020. [9]
The United Democratic Party is a political party in the Gambia, founded in 1996 by 3 political parties and choose the human rights lawyer, freedom fighter, ANM Ousainou Darboe to be the party leader and Secretary General. As a candidate in the presidential election of 18 October 2001, he came second with 32.6% of the popular vote; he took second place again in the 22 September 2006 presidential election with 26.7% of the vote. The 17 January 2002 parliamentary election was boycotted by the party. In the 25 January 2007 parliamentary election, the party won four out of 48 seats.
The People's Progressive Party is a political party in the Gambia. It was the dominant ruling party of the House of Representatives and the presidency from 1962 to 1994. The president throughout this time period was Dawda Jawara. The People's Progressive Party lost power after the 1994 Gambian coup d'état, a military coup led by young, junior military officers. The Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) then became the dominant party of the Gambia. The People's Progressive Party remains active, but lacking the same level of support it garnered in the 20th century.
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) or Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, since September 2014. The AfDB is a financial provider to African governments and private companies investing in the regional member countries (RMC).
The Gambia Football Federation (GFF), formerly known as the Gambia Football Association, is the governing body of football in Gambia. It was founded in 1952, and affiliated to FIFA in 1968 and to CAF in 1966. It organizes the GFA League First Division, the GFA League Second Division and the national team. The current president is Lamin Kaba Bajo since September 2014.
Football is the most popular sport in The Gambia and still growing in popularity.
Sipho Moyo is a Zimbabwean economist. She is the "Director of Cabinet and Chief of Staff in the Office of the President", at the African Development Bank (AfDB). She was appointed by Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the AfDB, and assumed office on 1 November 2019.
Hand of Fate is a 2013 Gambian film which focuses on human rights issues. It provides insights into the situation of teenage girls who are given out to marriage by their parent without their consent or knowledge and how their education and future carriers are being affected along the way. The Children and Community Initiative for Development in partnership with the Mandingmorry Foundation for Performing Arts (MANFOPA) made this film possible.
Fanta, Lady Singhateh, CRG, also known as Fatou Fanta Basse Sagnia or Sagniang is a former First Lady of the Gambia.
Hanan Morsy is an Egyptian economist, who serves as the Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, since January 2022.
Harriet Margaret Ndow was a Gambian educator and educational entrepreneur.
Basiru V.P. Mahoney is a Gambian lawyer, politician and judge who served as Attorney General of The Gambia from 27 August 2014 to 9 January 2015. He previously served as the Solicitor General and Legal Secretary between May 2013 and August 2014 and as a Judge of the High Court between 2009 and 2013. Basiru Mahoney currently serves as a Judge of the Court of Appeal of The Gambia.
Presidential elections were held in the Gambia on 4 December 2021. The result was a victory for incumbent President Adama Barrow of the National People's Party, who received 53% of the vote, defeating five other candidates.
The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development, also known as the EJS Center, is an organization to encourage and develop women in leadership roles in Africa. Founded by the former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2018, the organization aims "to be a catalyst for change across Africa, by helping unleash its most abundant untapped power – its women".
Haddy Dandeh-Jabbie also known as Haddy Dandeh is a Gambian women's rights activist, public speaker and lawyer who is well known for advocating for the women and children rights in Gambia. She currently serves as the President of the Female Lawyers Association of the Gambia (FLAG).
Fatou Sanyang Kinteh also known as Fatou Kinteh is a Gambian politician and women's rights activist. She currently serves as the Gambian minister for women's affairs, children, and social welfare. She also serves as the national coordinator of The Gambia for Gender-Based Violence and Female Genital Mutilation.
Naceesay Salla-Wadda also spelt either as Na Ceesay Salla Wadda or Naceesay Sallah-Wadda is a Gambian lawyer and legal expert.
Aji Yam Secka is a Gambian politician who was deputy leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP) and a long time women leader acting in various capacity. From 1998 to 2001, she was Secretary General of the party's women. She was deputy director of UND from 2011 to 2018. Secka became the head of the party in 2016 when the leader of the party, Ousainou Darboe, was held in detention by the government. Secka was one of the opposition leaders who formed a political alliance that endorsed the candidacy of Adama Barrow who eventually defeated the incumbent President Yahaya Jammeh.
Amie Fabureh is a Gambian politician who is serving as the Minister of Agriculture. She was appointed on 27 March 2019, by President Adama Barrow after working in the ministry for 30 years in different positions including as Training Officer in the Department of Agricultural Development Agency from 2007 to 2009, and Deputy Manager until 2017 when she became Horticulture Technical Services Manager. She was the chairwoman of the National Women's Council (NWC) in 2018.
Sharon Wardle is a British diplomat. She was the Ambassador to The Gambia from 2017. After the negotiations were complete to allow the Gambia to rejoin the commonweath she became the High Commissioner to The Gambia from 2018 to 2020. In 2021 she became the Ambassador to Algeria.
Isatou Nyang is a Gambian Paralympic athlete. She was the first female Paralympic athlete from Gambia when she raced in the 2012 Summer Paralympics, where she was the Gambian flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
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