Photo source: SBC News By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront T here were protests in Gambia when President Adama Barrow refused to step down in December 2019 after three years, as he didn't hold on to his promise. It is because Barrow had changed the rules within his coalition. But, Gambians believed in a legality versus moral debate. Thus, the people had taken to the streets, but the president repudiated that he ought to serve a full five years in office, as per the constitutional guidelines. It led to a new grassroots Gambian movement called ‘Three Years Jotna’, which means ‘enough’ in the local Wolof language. As a response, hundreds of protestors had stormed into police barricades, and chanted that they planned to oust Barrow. In many protests, the attendance was in thousands. With the result, the government had decided to ban Three Years Jotna, and had several of its executive members imprisoned. Gambian officials called the political advocacy group ‘a subversi...