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Gambia's President, Yahya Jammeh Stays On Despite Deadline by owoicho13(m): 2:18pm On Jan 19, 2017
After more than two decades in power, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh faced the prospect of a military intervention by regional forces, as the man who once pledged to rule the West African nation for a billion years clung to power.

A few minutes after a midnight deadline set by the West African regional bloc to step down, there was no word from Jammeh.

Earlier, a military commander with the regional bloc known as Ecowas announced that troops were positioning along Gambia's borders.

"The mandate of the president is finished at midnight," declared Seydou Maiga Moro, speaking on Senegalese radio station RFM. "All the troops are already in place," he added, saying they were merely waiting to see whether Jammeh would acquiesce to international pressure to cede power to President-elect Adama Barrow.

As midnight approached, Jammeh met with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on the crisis. The Mauritanian plane left Gambia shortly before midnight.

Re: Gambia's President, Yahya Jammeh Stays On Despite Deadline by owoicho13(m): 2:19pm On Jan 19, 2017
Re: Gambia's President, Yahya Jammeh Stays On Despite Deadline by Nobody: 2:26pm On Jan 19, 2017
Death Is Calling...He is too blind to see. Greed.

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Re: Gambia's President, Yahya Jammeh Stays On Despite Deadline by TheABOMINATION: 2:36pm On Jan 19, 2017
It is going to be another liberia all over again.

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Re: Gambia's President, Yahya Jammeh Stays On Despite Deadline by ikp120(m): 2:43pm On Jan 19, 2017
All these my fellow bloggers sef angry

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