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Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has hit out at regional mediators urging him to step down, saying he will not be intimidated. The West African regional bloc Ecowas had called on him to honour his initial pledge to accept electoral defeat. Mr Jammeh, who subsequently said the 1 December poll was...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said he would not step down and nobody can deprieve him of power except Almighty Allah. He also condemned mediation by West African regional bloc ECOWAS that aims to get him to leave power after he lost a Dec. 1 election to challenger Adama Barrow. The comments...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS has appionted President Muhammadu Buhari and his Ghanaian counterpart, President John Mahama as Chief Mediator and Co-Mediator respectively in the Gambian political impasse. According to a communiqué presented at the end of the 50th...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) - a grouping of 57 Muslim nations - has called on Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to respect the result of the election, which he lost, and step down from power. Mr Jammeh is a devout Muslim who is often pictured carrying a copy of the Koran and has...

Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow has told the BBC he will declare himself president on 18 January regardless of President Yahya Jammeh's rejection of the election result. Mr Barrow said his team was preparing for the event despite security concerns: "Our position is very very clear. I'm...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described President Muhammadu Buhari's involvement in the meeting with President Yahya Jammeh to persuade him to concede defeat as an aberration. The governor said: “A man like Buhari under whose free, fair and credible elections no longer exist lacks...

After hours of working hard to convince the Gambia’s defeated President Yahya Jammeh to hand over power, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States left Banjul, the capital city without achieving their goals. President Jammeh would not renege on challenging the December 1st...

The Gambia’s Ambassador to the United States has become the first diplomat to distance himself from his country’s defeated President, Yahya Jammeh. Like many Gambians, Sheikh Omar Faye felt relieved when Gambians go to the polls and voted for an opposition coalition Candidate Adama Barrow...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday stated that Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has been extremely receptive to a delegation of West African leaders who arrived the country of recent. Asked if Jammeh had been receptive, he told reporters shortly after a meeting: "Yes, very much...

As President Muhammadu Buhari and other AU delegation arrived Gambia, President Yahya Jammeh has sent soldiers to seized the headquarters of the electoral commission The Gambia's election commission told the BBC that security forces have taken over his building. The head of Gambia's electoral...

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is currently on a two day official visit to Algeria as President Muhammadu Buhari and other African leader met Gambia's leader, Yahya Jammeh over Presidential election result tussle. Prof. Osinbajo is accompanied by State Foreign Affairs Khadija Bukar Abba...

President Muhammadu Buhari, his counterparts from Ghana and Liberia, John Mahama and President Sirleaf Johnson have arrived Banjul to prevail on Yayha Jammeh to hand over power. Here are three things Mr. Buhari and other African presidents will discuss with Yahya Jammeh: 1. President Buhari...

Reuben Abati, the former media aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan has writtern another piece on gambia presidential tussle as African leaders move to appeal to President Yahya jammeh to concede defeat to December 1 election where the opposition leader, Adama Barrow was declared winner...

Reuben Abati, the former media aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan has writtern another piece on gambia presidential tussle as African leaders move to appeal to President Yahya jammeh to concede defeat to December 1 election where the opposition leader, Adama Barrow was declared winner...

Reuben Abati, the former media aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan has writtern another piece on gambia presidential tussle as African leaders move to appeal to President Yahya jammeh to concede defeat to December 1 election where the opposition leader, Adama Barrow was declared winner...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and other West African leaders will travel to The Gambia tomorrow in a bid to end the political crisis in the tiny West African nation, following authoritarian ruler Yahya Jammeh's refusal to accept defeat at the hands of former estate agent Adama Barrow. A...

Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh said he is ready to challenge the results of December 1 election at the Supreme Court, the ruling party said. In a statement broadcast on state television late on Saturday, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) said it was preparing a...

The UN Security Council on Saturday demanded that Gambia’s leader Yahya Jammeh hand over power to the president-elect after he rejected the election results in a dramatic political U-turn. In a unanimous statement, the 15 council members called on Jammeh to “respect the choice of the...

In a surprising and dangerous somersault, Jammeh, who has ruled Gambia for 22 years, announced on state TV that he was rejecting the result, which he accepted last week as reflective of the wish of the people of Gambia. He now called for a fresh election. See video:

Gambia's President-elect, Adama Barrow has described Yahya Jammeh's proposal as an approach that will tarnish democratic process of The Gambia. Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh had on Friday night rejected the result of the presidential election held earlier this month, a week after admitting...