The inauguration held Wednesday in Banjul, the Gambian capital.
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For the third time in three decades, an opposition leader defeated the sitting president sending a message to the world that the continent may not be the incumbent’s lair after all.
From February 24 to March 11, 2021, witnesses told the Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission that migrants bound for Europe from Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, plus their Gambian contact, were held by Jammeh’s top lieutenants in the security services before being murdered by the “Junglers,” a notorious paramilitary unit that took its orders directly from Jammeh.
The army officer said this on Monday at a truth commission set up by President Adama Barrow’s government to investigate abuses under Jammeh.
The United States has barred former President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia and his immediate family from the country.
Biya, who came to power in 1982 when his predecessor retired, is seeking a seventh term in office that could see the 85-year-old rule well into his 90s
President Paul Biya of Cameroon will run for re-election in October, he said on Friday, aiming to extend his 36-year rule and maintain his place on a shortening roster of long-standing African leaders.
President Buhari, who stated this when he received the visiting Gambian President, Adama Barrow, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday, said Nigeria and the ECOWAS had no option left than using the unpopular tactics.
Barrow made the commendation at a news conference he jointly addressed with President Buhari after bilateral talks in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Soldiers from the mission, known as ECOMIG, came under attack on Friday by locals in Jammeh’s native village of Kanilai, Interior Minister Mai Fatty said in a televised statement, underscoring unresolved tensions from Jammeh’s 22-year rule
Troops from Gambia’s neighbour, Senegal, as well as from Ghana and Nigeria will make up the smaller operation, whose mandate begins on February 21 and will last for three months
Barrow who, was elected almost on December 1, was forced to flee to Senegal when his predecessor, Yahya Jammeh refused to step aside
For Africa, the problem was different. If the UK had actually fired the missile at West Africa, it could have landed in Accra, Abuja or Abidjan
Barrow was inaugurated in neighbouring Senegal as mediators sought an exit deal for his predecessor, Yayha Jammeh, on January 19
Former interior minister, Ousman Sonko, has been staying in an asylum centre in Bern since November, police chief Hans-Juerg Kaeser said
Marcel de Souza said this while briefing members of the diplomatic corps and partner organisations on the political situation in The Gambia on Tuesday in Abuja
The move comes shortly before President Adama Barrow is expected to return to Gambia from neighbouring Senegal, where he sought refuge for security reasons
The master-stroke by the Buhari mediation team came when Yahya Jammeh was presented with a fait accompli, with the swearing-in of Adama Barrow as the legitimate President of the Gambia in Dakar, Senegal in the premises of the Gambian Embassy!
Barrow also appointed Fatoumata Tambajang as vice president
A female member of our entourage who had gone to the restaurant alone, later returned – visibly shaken and alarmed and what was her problem: one of the male ushers in the hotel had asked her if she would need a man to keep her company so she could have a real taste of Gambian hospitality