Madison Alder Samba Baldeh has defeated Republican Samuel Anderson in the 48th Assembly District.
“I look forward to working with the governor and all of my colleagues on the urgent issues that must be addressed; a raging pandemic, massive unemployment particularly in the service sector and the upcoming winter and flu season,” Baldeh tells Madison365. “These really are issues of life and death and should be the focus of our attention before everything else.”
Baldeh was declared the winner with 80 percent of the vote with 97 percent of precincts reporting. Baldeh will be the first Muslim elected to the Wisconsin State Legislature and the first Black man from Dane County. Baldeh, an IT project engineer at American Family Insurance, is currently in his third term on the Madison Common Council representing Madison’s 17th District.
Baldeh takes over from Rep. Melissa Sargent who had represented the 48th Assembly District since 2013.
Civil Society Organisations including the Solo Sandeng Foundation have called on the Adama Barrow government to demonstrate political will and implement all the recommendations the TRRC is expected to make as they remember martyr Solo Sandeng.
The deputy commissioner and head of Domestic Tax at the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), Essa Jallow, has said that GRA is in the process of rethinking and redesigning the way it works to better support the authority’s vision.
Top Gambian businessman and philanthropist, Salifu K. Jaiteh, has through his second hand clothing and building material company S.K. Jaiteh and Sons, donated materials worth over D200,000 to the disaster victims of the recent windstorms in Sandu District in the Upper River Region (URR).
The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, on Monday morning received in his office the captain of The Gambia’s international youth team, Tijan Jaiteh, who was recently appointed Goodwill Ambassador of The Gambia by His Excellency President Adama Barrow.
