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Sunday, December 4, 2016
In a stunning upset the longtime leader of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, was defeated in the country’s presidential election. Jammeh had been in power for 22 years before losing to opposition candidate Adama Barrow.
Previously Jammeh had claimed he would rule for “a billion years”.
In what is also seen as stunning, Jammeh seems to be accepting the results. In an address on state radio on December 2,he president accepted the results announced by the electoral commission.
The election results had Gambia’s citizens celebrating in the streets in the capital city of Banjul. While the residents are for the most part jubilant, some are taking a ‘wait and see’ stance with one Gambian being quoted by Reuters as saying, “I will only believe it (Jammeh’s defeat) when I see him leaving state house. He still controls the army and his family are the top brass.”
Barrow, Gambia’s new president, won the election with 45.5% of the vote.
While Gambians celebrated over the election loss of their longtime dictator Yahya Jammeh, down the West African coast in the country of Angola citizens were just as stunned to hear the news that their entrenched ruler Jose Eduardo dos Santos would not stand for re-election.
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