Yahya Jammeh’s home village of Kanilah has been taken by ECOWAS forces.
Sources within The Gambia say soldiers armed to the teeth swooped in on the dictator’s compound residence in the first attack on a tyrant refusing to leave office after an election defeat.
At the time of writing Jammeh was making frantic efforts to negotiate an amnesty with Mauritania’s president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. The agreement could among other things see Jammeh receiving political asylum protection and being quickly airlifted out of the country.
Jammeh’s opponent, Adama Barrow, won an election last month.
Jammeh, who has ruled Gambia since 1994, is also seeking a security detail and clearance to take his assets, named regional officials said, asking not to be identified because a public announcement has not been made. His request to stay in his home village of Kanilai has been denied, they said. It was not clear where he will go. More to follow…
This is exctly how to treat a dictator! Hit him hard.
WHAT A FOOLISH IDIOT,,,,,,,THIS IS THE ONLY LANGUAGE HE UNDERSTANDS……DISGRACE FOR AFRICA………HE WAS NOW PROPERLY HUMILIATED INSTEAD OF COMING OUT WITH DIGINITY….SADC MUST LEARN FROM ECOWAS……SADC ENTERTAIN DICTATOR MUGABE SOUTH AFRICA AND ZAMBIA GIVING HIM RED CARPET VIST AFTER WHAT HE HAS DONE TO PPLE OF ZIMBABWE…ONLY BOTSWANA BRAVE TO CONDEMN MUGABE
shonas rimove mugabish alone
They must shoot him on sight, why is he wasting poor people’s time and resources? I am sure its every expensive to just send the troops down there.
Kwasara Mugabe muna 2018. Mbavha yemaelections
POSITIVE AND COMMENDABLE MOVE BY ECOWAS
kikikikiki,… THere is something I’m finding very interesting. Have you seen how our local press is totally mum about these developments in the Gambia?
ini ndinoti ngaasungwe
its in the bible who kills with a sword will die with a sword no mercy he should have prepared his exit long back . Property transition of power is good you wont create enemies unlike now . Let it be
All that time and you didn’t plot your exit. Oh well, history has proved many times how it always ends for these pigs. Here’s a case of someone that thought it would never end. Now he has nowhere to go, not even his village. Its quite clear the demise that awaits him.
How many times did they try to negotiate with him to no avail? No more negotiations; hit him hard and take him to the Hague; idiot!!