West African troops threaten to ‘take action’ at midnight in Gambia

A military commander with West Africa’s regional bloc says its forces will “take action” at midnight unless a solution is found to Gambia’s political crisis before then. Speaking on Senegalese radio station RFM, Seydou Maiga Mboro of Niger declared that “all the troops are already in place” awaiting the deadline for President Yahya Jammeh to step down.