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Adama Barrow comfortably won a second term in The Gambia's presidential election, with thousands of his supporters celebrating in the streets of Banjul, although his opponents disputed the results announced late Sunday.

Newley elected President of Gambia, Adama Barrow waves to his supporters after winning the presidential elections in Banjul on November 5, 2021. – Adama Barrow was on December 5, 2021 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.

Electoral commission chairman Alieu Momarr Njai declared Barrow the winner, announcing the final results to journalists hours after rival candidates had challenged partial results that gave him a commanding lead. Before the full results were announced, three of Barrow’s rivals had rejected partial results that gave him an early lead.

“There will be no winner or loser but only one winner, The Gambian people,” he said in his statement.The election is being closely watched as a test of the democratic transition in The Gambia, where Jammeh ruled for 22 years after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1994. Many of the roughly one million eligible voters in the nation of more than two million people are hoping for an improvement in their living standards.

 

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