(JollofNews) – Senegal on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council after Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh announced he was rejecting the results of a Dec. 1 election which he lost to President-elect Adama Barrow. Senegal’s Foreign Minister, Mankeur Ndiaye, speaking on television station TFM, also asked[Read More…]
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Updated: Gambia’s Jammeh Rejects Election Results
(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia Friday rejected the results of last weeks election accusing the country’s electoral commission of committing ‘unacceptable mistakes’. Mr Jammeh, 51, who has ruled the Gambia since July 1994, lost the election to Adama Barrow of the opposition coalition. Final results by the[Read More…]
Gambia: Defeated Ruling Party Enforcer Reaches Out To Supporters
(JollofNews) – The national mobiliser of President Yahya Jammeh’s APRC has called on the vanguards of the party and its supporters to unite and work towards achieving victory in subsequent elections. Mr Jammeh’s party which has been governing the Gambia since 1996 was defeated in last Thursday’s election by a[Read More…]