Before the full results were announced late on Sunday, three of Barrow’s rivals had rejected partial results.
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Partial results from most districts show incumbent president well ahead of his main competitor Ousainou Darboe.
One million voters were registered in the election seen as a key test for stability for the small West African country.
Saturday’s vote will be closely watched as a test of the democratic transition in The Gambia.
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Six candidates, including incumbent President Adama Barrow, vying for the country’s top post in Saturday’s election.
Ahead of polls, activists pledge to keep up fight after filing report into abuses committed under ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh.
A 14,000-page report handed to President Barrow gives details of nearly 400 victims of torture, killing and rape.
Exiled Yahya Jammeh speaks remotely at event of candidate he has endorsed, accuses successor of ‘destroy[ing] country’.
Ebou Janha, 102, is the only surviving veteran of a regiment of Gambian soldiers who fought for the British in Burma.
Incumbent President Adama Barrow will face five challengers in the December 4 polls.
The upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections will be the most consequential in The Gambia’s history.
Probe was ordered into crimes committed under The Gambia’s former longtime leader Yahya Jammeh.
Gambia is seeking the records as part of a genocide case against Myanmar over the brutal 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya.
US president to nominate Wall Street banker and ex-State Department official Thomas Nides after months-long delay.
