Ousainou Darboe

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Osainou Darboe (2018)

Ousainou ANM Darboe (born August 8, 1948 in Dobo ) is a Gambian politician and human rights lawyer. Until 2019 he was the leading politician of the longstanding leading opposition party in Gambia's United Democratic Party (UDP).

Life

Darboe is a trained lawyer. In 1980 he founded his own law firm, Basangsang Chambers . Rachael Mendy worked for him between 1994 and 2007. From 2000 Neneh Cham worked in his office.

Two years after the military coup in Gambia, he first stood in the 1996 presidential election as a candidate for his newly founded party UDP. According to Jammeh, he won 35.84 percent of the vote.

In the 2001 presidential election , held on October 18, Darboe made a second attempt to win the presidency. Ousainou Darboe was a candidate for a three-party coalition and won 32.6 percent of the vote and was again defeated by Jammeh.

Darboe's party joined four other opposition parties in 2005 to form the National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD) to prepare for the 2006 elections. This coalition broke up again in 2006 because it was not possible to agree on a common candidate.

Jammeh also won the 2006 presidential election ahead of Darboe. He was supported by the Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress (GPDP) and National Reconciliation Party (NRP) because they had not put up their own candidates. This time he got 26.69 percent of the vote and rejected the result. In his eyes the elections were not free and fair. He also told the press that there had been extensive intimidation.

Darboe was not allowed to run for the 2016 presidential election because he was serving a prison sentence from April 2016 that only ended after the election. Instead, Adama Barrow won the election against Jammeh. In the Cabinet Barrow Darboe Foreign Minister was.

With a larger Cabinet reshuffle on June 29, 2018 Darboe Vice President and Minister for Affairs of Women (was English Minister of Women's Affairs ). Since March 1, 2019 leads Fatou Sanyang Kinteh the Ministry of affairs of women, children and social affairs ( Ministry for Women Affairs, Children, and Social Welfare ). On March 15, 2019, he was also deprived of the office of vice-president in a small cabinet reshuffle, and in the same year the party chairmanship.

Web links

Commons : Ousainou Darboe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gambia: More Legal Practitioners Appear Before Tax Commission. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ Gambia: More Lawyers Appear Before Tax Commission. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ ABOUT US. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  4. ^ "Gambian opposition claims fraud" , BBC.co.uk, September 25, 2006.
  5. ^ Gambia opposition leader Ousainou Darboe freed on bail. bbc.com of December 5, 2016 (English), accessed February 9, 2017
  6. ↑ Gambia: Updated Version of the Cabinet Reshuffle Press Release! In: Freedom Newspaper. June 29, 2018, accessed August 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Pa Nderry Mbai: Gambia: vp Darboe lot Women's Affairs Portfolio; as Barrow Appoints Fatou Sanyang Kinteh. In: freedomnewspaper.com. 2019, Retrieved March 2, 2019 (American English).
  8. ↑ Lamin Njie: Barrow Sacks Darboe, Sanneh, Dibba. In: fatunetwork.net. March 15, 2019, Retrieved March 17, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Darboe, Ousainou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darboe, Ousainou ANM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobo