{"id":83249,"date":"2016-12-02T22:23:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-gambia-freedom-house-applauds-peaceful-elections-urges-peaceful-transition\/"},"modified":"2016-12-02T22:23:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:23:04","slug":"the-gambia-freedom-house-applauds-peaceful-elections-urges-peaceful-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-gambia-freedom-house-applauds-peaceful-elections-urges-peaceful-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gambia: Freedom House Applauds Peaceful Elections, Urges Peaceful Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/the-gambia-freedom-house-applauds-peaceful-elections-urges-peaceful-transition?lang=en\">The Gambia: Freedom House Applauds Peaceful Elections, Urges Peaceful Transition<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>In response to the release of The Gambia&rsquo;s December 1, 2016 election results, Freedom House issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Freedom House congratulates the people of The Gambia on a largely peaceful election day,&rdquo; said Vukasin Petrovic, director for Central, East and West Africa programs. &ldquo;Freedom House encourages all parties to accept the will of the people and positively notes President Yahya Jammeh&rsquo;s intention to concede. This move signals a hopeful path for The Gambia&rsquo;s future democratic prospects.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>Background:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On December 1, 2016, The Gambia&rsquo;s incumbent President Yahya Jammeh faced opposition candidate Adama Barrow in national elections. Despite a complete shutdown of the internet and international speculation that President Jammeh would not allow a challenge to his 22 years in power, the electoral commission announced an opposition victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Gambia is rated Not Free in <em>Freedom in the World 2016<\/em>, Not Free in <em>Freedom of the Press 2016<\/em>, and Not Free in <em>Freedom on the Net 2016<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO on behalf of Freedom House.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/91939c8f6825065\/200\/70\" alt=\"Freedom House\"\/><br \/>Download logo<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/the-gambia-freedom-house-applauds-peaceful-elections-urges-peaceful-transition?lang=en\">APO &#8211; Africa-Newsroom: latest news releases related to Africa<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambia: Freedom House Applauds Peaceful Elections, Urges Peaceful Transition: In response to the release of The Gambia&rsquo;s December 1, 2016 election results, Freedom House issued the following statement: &ldquo;Freedom House congratulates the people of The Gambia on a largely peaceful election day,&rdquo; said Vukasin Petrovic, director for Central, East and West Africa programs. &ldquo;Freedom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[14593,46,901,14241,3609,5266,13749,3721],"class_list":{"0":"post-83249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-applauds","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-freedom","10":"tag-gambia","11":"tag-house","12":"tag-peaceful","13":"tag-transition","14":"tag-urges","15":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}