News agencies reported on Thursday that troops from Senegal had entered the Gambia. "We have entered Gambia," Colonel Abdou Ndiaye wrote in a text message to Reuters news agency. "They entered this afternoon," he said after Barrow's swearing-in ceremony.
A hastily arranged ceremony took place in the Senegalese capital of Dakar to inaugurate Adama Barrow as the new president of Gambia. Around 40 people were present in the ceremony, including Senegal's prime minister and head of Gambia's electoral commission. Several hundred people watched the televised event standing outside the Gambian embassy in Dakar, news agencies reported.
"This is a day no Gambian will ever forget in a lifetime," Barrow said in his inaugural speech. "We will now build a Gambia where what you know counts more than who you know," he added.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres congratulated the new president, extending his support. Guterres "told President Barrow of his full support for his determination, and ECOWAS' historic decision, with the unanimous backing of the Security Council, to restore the rule of law in The Gambia so as to honor and respect the will of the Gambian people," a UN spokesman said.
(Reuters, AP, AFP, DW)
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Gambian army chief Ousman Badjie celebrated on the street with supporters of President Adama Barrow Thursday, after promising his men would not fight approaching African troops...
ReplyDeleteBadjie appeared in the Westfield district close to the Gambian capital where Barrow supporters have gathered to dance and cheer following the inauguration of their new president, according to an AFP journalist at the scene.
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