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    World Morocco Offers Yahya Jammeh A 'Golden Opportunity'

    Morocco has offered The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh a golden opportunity asylum in return for accepting election defeat and stepping down, a local news website reported on Tuesday. Recall that Nigerian Bulletin reported that the House of Representatives in Nigeria had voted to grant the...
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    World Gambia's VP, Njie-Saidy Steps Down Amid Pressure On Yahya Jammeh

    Gambia's Vice President, Isatou Njie-Saidy, has also resigned amid mounting pressure for outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to step down ahead of tomorrow's inauguration of Adama Barrow. His resignation is coming as Yahya Jammeh got nod from The Gambia's parliament to extend his 22-years ruling in...
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    World Adama Barrow May Be Sworn In Outside Gambia – Nigeria's Foreign Minister, Onyeama

    The inauguration for Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow may take place outside of the capital Banjul as President Yahya Jammeh continues to refuse to leave office, according to Nigeria's Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama. Barrow is expected to be sworn-in tomorrow, Thursday, however talks on...
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    World Jammeh Plans Escape Route as Nigeria Warship Gets Closer To Gambia [PHOTOS]

    According to a Gambian journalist and Human Rights activist, President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia has fueled and parked his plane in the middle of the tarmac ready for escape. The escape comes as a second option should the ECOWAS troops swoop in on him. According to the reporter, the president's...
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    World Nigeria's Warship Heads to Gambia

    Nigeria’s newest warship, the NNS Unity, is currently enroute Gambia ahead of possible military intervention over President Yahya Jammeh's refusal to accept election defeat. BBC reports that according to a Nigerian Military source, the patrol vessel is currently sailing off the coast of Ghana...
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    World Yahya Jammeh Declares 90-Day State of Emergency in Gambia

    Yahya Jammeh, outgoing President of Gambia has declared a 90-day state of emergency two days before expected handover; BBC reports. Jammeh made the announcement on state television.
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    World Gambia: 6th Minister Resigns From Yahya Jammeh's Cabinet

    Gambia’s tourism and culture minister, Benjamin Roberts has become the sixth cabinet member to resign his position. Observers believe the resignations showed that Yahya Jammeh, who ruled Gambia for 22 years with an iron fist, is increasingly politically isolated. Jammeh's tenure expires...
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    World What I Noticed When I Visited Gambia's State House Today - BBC reporter

    Apprehension grips The Gambia as the Thursday deadline for President Yahya Jammeh to step down looms, it's all calm at State House, which he has occupied for the last 22 years, BBC reporter who visited the capital city reports. BBC Africa, Umaru Fofana said soldiers and police officers are...
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    World ECOWAS To Jammeh: Step Down Tomorrow Midnight Or...

    The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has given the embattled President of The Gambia, Mr. Yahya Jammeh, till midnight tomorrow to vacate office and hand over power to the country’s President-Elect, Mr. Adama Barrow, or be ousted by force. The commission has planned military...
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    World Gambia: More Trouble For Jammeh As 5 Ministers Resign

    More trouble is brewing as Gambia's ministers for finance, foreign affairs, trade, environment and tourism have resigned from President Yahya Jammeh's government. Hon. Benjamin Adam Roberts becomes the latest in Jammeh's government to resigned over intense plot to remove Yahya Jammeh remove...
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    World President-Elect, Adama Barrow Writes Gambians Ahead of Inauguration

    President-elect, Adama Barrow has written to the people of The Gambian ahead of Thursday's inauguration despite Yahya Jammeh's refusal to hand over power after losing December election, Nigerian Bulletin gathered. Recall that on Sunday, eight-year-old son of Gambian President-elect Adama Barrow...
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    World Gambia : Yahya Jammeh Condemns AU Decision to Stop Recognizing His Govt After January 19

    President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia has kicked against the decision of the African Union to stop recognizing his government after 19th of January, 2017. READ: AU Set to Disown Yahaya Jammeh as Gambia's President In a statement released online, the Gambian government described the African...
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    World Gambia: Foreign Minister Resigns

    Neneh MacDouall-Gaye has resigned his position as Gambia's foreign minister. See resignation letter as forwarded to President Yahya Jammeh:
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    World AU Set to Disown Yahaya Jammeh as Gambia's President

    The Gambian Supreme Court has thrown out a suit filed by President Yahaya Jammeh aimed at stopping the inauguration of opposition leader and president-elect Adama Barrow on the 19th of January, 2017. On Monday, the country’s chief judge, Emmanuel Fagbenle, a Nigerian, declined to grant the...
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    World Gambian President-Elect Barrow's Son Dies After Dog Bite

    The eight-year-old son of Gambian President-elect Adama Barrow has died after being bitten by a dog, BBC reports. Habibou Barrow is reported to have died on the way to the hospital after Sunday's incident in Manjai near Banjul. His funeral has already taken place. Mr Barrow is in the...
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    World Gambia's Chief Justice Turns Down Jammeh's Request, Stamps Barrow's Inauguration

    Gambia's Chief Justice on Monday has turned down Yahya Jammeh's request to stop President-elect, in a bid that stamped President-elect, Adama Barrow's inauguration on Thursday, January 19, Nigerian Bulletin can report. Chief Justice of Gambia's Supreme Court, Emmanuel Fagbenle told outgoing...
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    World Yahya Jammeh Orders Armoured Tanks Into Gambia Streets

    Out-going President, Yahya Jammeh has ordered military hardwares all over the streets of Banjul, the national capital and other parts of the tiny West African nation. A Gambian, Mrs Fatou Abdoulaye who arrived Calabar in Nigeria said the build up is at the instance of President Yayha Jammeh who...
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    World Jammeh Breaks Diplomatic Protocol, Televise Phone Conversation With Liberian President

    Gambia's dictator, Yahya Jammeh has broke diplomatic relation by televising a phone conversation with Liberian President, Sirleaf Johnson over the political crisis brewing the tiny West African nation. The paranoid outgoing President Yahya Jammeh on Sunday made the surprising live televise...
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    World Gambians Run Out Of Country As Jammeh Refuses To Step Down [See PHOTOS]

    Thousands of Gambians continue to flee out of Banjul, the capital city as imminent violence rages the small tiny West Africa nation over the refusal of President Yahya Jammeh to step down after losing the December election to opposition leader, Adama Barrow, Nigerian Bulletin gathered. Banjul...
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    World Jammeh's Ejection: ECOWAS Army Chiefs Prepare for Possible Invasion of Gambia

    Army chiefs of ECOWAS countries have met to discuss a possible military invasion of The Gambia to eject President Yahaya Jammeh. According to a report from The Nation, Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, on Saturday hosted colleagues from other West African countries as Economic...
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