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Gambia: Tension heightens as 4 ministers resign
The political tension in the troubled West African country of Gambia has just been upped another notch after four ministers resigned their positions as the end of President Yahya Jammeh’s term looms.
Among those who threw in the towel were the finance, foreign affairs, trade and the environment ministers, Gambia’s ministry sources and state television revealed in the capital of Banjul.
Their resignations are coming less than a day after the country’s Chief Justice Emmanuel Fagbenle pulled out of a case filed by Jammeh seeking to stop the inauguration of President-elect Adama Barrow.
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Fagbenle said late on Monday that he could not hear the new case, dealing a blow to Jammeh’s efforts to halt the inauguration of Barrow, who remains in Senegal.
“Given that the injunction affects me in my capacity as the chief justice, I will recuse myself from hearing it,” he said.
“The motion therefore waits for the constitution of the Supreme Court or allows the judges to arrive in The Gambia.”
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