BREAKING NEWS: ECOWAS has just announced that it will not send any observers to the Gambia for tomorrow's presidential election. The commission says “preparations and political environment for the said election are adjudged by the Commission not to be conducive for the conduct of free, fair and transparent polls”. It cites “intimidation, an unacceptable level of control of the electronic media by
...the party in power, the lack of neutrality of state and parastatal institutions, and an opposition and electorate cowed by repression and intimidation”. It says the electoral climate does not meet the minimum standards set under the Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance for the conduct of elections.See More