As the Gambia’s electoral future turns bleak, and its citizens fate hang in the balance, the country’s political crisis took another dimension yesterday when another private radio station was shut down by Gambian authorities.

Ceoafrica gathered that Paradise FM is the fourth radio station to be ordered off air this month, by plain clothes policemen who claimed to be acting on information ministry’s directive, told the station to stop broadcasting late on Sunday.

It was further gathered that Paradise FM, also known as the most popular radio of Gambia, had hosted an opposition spokesman, Halifa Sallah, as well as to a ruling party spokesman, Yankuba Colley, to discuss the political crisis.

Three other radio stations have been ordered off air in similar circumstances so far in January, with only one of them, Afri Radio, later allowed to continue broadcasting on the condition that it plays only music, the report adds.

President Yayha Jammeh is disputing the victory of opposition candidate, Adama Barrow despite earlier conceding.

Yahya Jammeh's party has filed a petition at the Supreme Court which would be heard tomorrow.