(JollofNews) – West African leaders are still pursuing mediation to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in Gambia where President Yahya Jammeh refused to accept defeat in an election last month, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Saturday. Sirleaf told reporters after a meeting among regional leaders in Ghana’s[Read More…]
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W/African Leaders To Take ‘Major Decision’ On Gambia, Nigeria Says
(JollofNews) – West African leaders will take a “major decision” on the political impasse in Gambia at a meeting in Ghana on Saturday, a spokesman for the Nigerian presidency said on Friday. The West African ECOWAS bloc said last month it would take all necessary steps to uphold the result[Read More…]
Nigeria Pledges To Ensure Gambia’s Jammeh Hands Over Peacefully
(JollofNews) – Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, says his country will do everything possible to help The Gambia have a peaceful resolution to its political crisis. Mr. Onyeama stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. The minister expressed optimism that the Gambian President[Read More…]
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