BANJUL , Dec 6 — Adama Barrow was yesterday declared the victor of The Gambia’s presidential election by the electoral commission, winning a second term in office in the tiny West African nation.
“There will be no winner or loser but only one winner, The Gambian people,” he said in his statement. Jammeh was forced into exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after Barrow, then a relative unknown, defeated him at the ballot box. The Gambia, a sliver of land about 480 kilometres long surrounded by Senegal, is one of the poorest countries in the world.The tourism-dependent economy was dealt a severe blow by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Barrow himself has already gone back on a promise to remain in power for only three years, and has weakened rhetoric about prosecutions for crimes committed under Jammeh.
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