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With fading memories of the Jammeh administration, Gambians have been reconciling themselves to evolving realities. The parliamentary elections of 2022 attest to the evolution of a new dispensation which has replaced the old order with new political actors. While the populace anxiously looked forward to the implementation of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (trrc) recommendations, society remained characteristically calm despite occasional cross-border incursions perpetrated by the armed secessionist movement in southern Senegal. After taking his second oath of office, President Adama Barrow seemed to be getting accustomed to the business of governance. Notwithstanding the Freedom House Human Rights Report, there were still cries of alleged unprecedented unwholesome financial practices in high places. The ripple effects of the conflict in Ukraine on the price of essential commodities was being grappled with, coupled with the waning effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.