Gambia: Former VP Dr Touray Enters 2026 Race As Independent

Gambia: Former VP Dr Touray Enters 2026 Race As Independent

Former Vice President Dr. Isatou Touray has announced her candidacy as an independent presidential candidate for the 2026 election, becoming the second female former VP to join the race after Fatoumatta Jallow Tambajang.

Ex-VP Touray Returns To Politics – The Standard Newspaper

By Tabora Bojang Dr Isatou Touray, the former vice president, has announced she is making a political comeback. Touray quit politics and resumed her role as executive director of Gamcotrap following her removal by President Adama Barrow in 2022. She is now aiming to contest against her former boss as an independent candidate with a pledge to “fulfilling” what she calls “the failed promises.” The former VP announced her return on her Facebook pag…

Former VP Dr Touray enters 2026 race as independent

A veteran politician and gender rights advocate, Touray co-founded GAMCOTRAP in 1984 and led the 1998 Banjul Declaration that condemned female genital mutilation. She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Sussex and previously established MDI’s Gender and Development program. Forced out of MDI in 2005 by the Jammeh regime, she helped build the 2016 opposition coalition that ended his 22-year rule. She later served as Minister…