{"id":126132,"date":"2015-06-18T15:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126132"},"modified":"2015-06-18T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:05:13","slug":"gambian-presidents-gets-new-title-bridge-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126132","title":{"rendered":"Gambian President&#8217;s gets new title &#8216;bridge builder&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh has added the title \u2018Babili Mansa\u2019 to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Babili Mansa in the Mandika-language means the &#8220;chief bridge builder&#8221; or &#8220;conqueror of rivers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement which was made through a statement from the Gambia\u2019s Presidency said President Jammeh should now be called &#8220;His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh Babili Mansa&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>President Jammeh seized power 21 years ago through a coup and has over the years been criticized for his leadership style.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2014, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) bestowed the title \u201cWest Africa King of Impunity\u201d on him for his 20-year-long rule of fear.<\/p>\n<p>According to MFWA, Mr Jammeh\u2019s rule has been \u201ccharacterized by gross human rights violations, disregard for the rule of law and on-going impunity for egregious rights violations in The Gambia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh has added the title \u2018Babili Mansa\u2019 to his name. Babili Mansa in the Mandika-language means the &#8220;chief bridge builder&#8221; or &#8220;conqueror of rivers&#8221;. The announcement which was made through a statement from the Gambia\u2019s Presidency said President Jammeh should now be called &#8220;His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":126133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-126132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}