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African leaders, UN move to prevail upon Gambia’s Jammeh

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African leaders, UN move to prevail upon Gambia's Jammeh

Moves are being made to prevail upon incumbent Gambian President Yahyah Jammeh who surprisingly rejected the outcome of the last presidential election citing serious anomalies while also calling on the country’s electoral body to stage new polls.

According to a Senegalese foreign ministry source, West African leaders are set to head to Gambia on Tuesday to try to persuade Jammeh to agree “to leave office” after his defeat at the ballot box.

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The source says the delegation will be headed by Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the current chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and others including Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, Sierra Leone leader Ernest Bai Koroma and outgoing Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama.

“These leaders will ask him to leave office,” the source added.

In the same vein, the United Nations Security Council will meet on Monday to discuss the refusal by Gambia’s ruling President Yahya Jammeh to step down, diplomats said, a move the 15-member body condemned in a statement on Saturday.

 

 

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