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Category: Dakar, Senegal
Gambia plans Feb. 18 celebration as new leader arrives home
Gambian President Adama Barrow greets the crowds after arriving at Banjul airport in Gambia, Thursday Jan. 26, 2017, after flying in from Dakar, Senegal. i Gambia’s new president has finally arrived in the country, a week after taking the oath of office abroad amid a whirlwind political crisis.
Gambians Celebrate the Arrival of Their New President
Gambia’s new president, Adama Barrow, returned to the capital, Banjul, one week after he took the oath of office in the Gambian embassy in Senegal. Barrow has been in neighboring Senegal’s capital, Dakar, since last week as the political crisis unfolded in Gambia with President Yahya Jammeh refusing to accept defeat in the country’s December elections.
.com | Senegal: Troops enter Gambia in effort to get Jammeh to go
Senegalese troops charged into neighboring Gambia late on Thursday in a show of force to oust longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh after he failed to step aside when his mandate ended at midnight after losing the presidential election last month. The troops moved in shortly after Adama Barrow was inaugurated as Gambia’s first new leader in more than 22 years at the country’s embassy in neighbouring Senegal after a final effort at diplomatic talks with Jammeh failed to secure his departure.
Senegal: Troops enter Gambia in effort to get Jammeh to go
Adama Barrow is sworn in as President of Gambia at Gambia’s embassy in Dakar Senegal in this image taken from TV Thursday, Jan 19, 2017.
Michael Fuller
“I studied for a year at the University of Dakar in Senegal,” says Michael Fuller, who was at the time a philosophy major at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.