08/12/2021 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 7 December, the European Union welcomed the smooth conduct of the 4 December presidential elections in the Gambia, for which it had deployed an EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) for the first time. The incumbent president, Adama Barrow, has been declared the winner. In a statement issued by the European External Action Service, the EU welcomes “the calm, peaceful and transparent manner in which the elections were conducted”. It adds:...