{"id":285729,"date":"2017-01-17T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=285729"},"modified":"2017-01-17T17:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T17:23:50","slug":"jammeh-declares-state-of-emergency-in-the-gambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=285729","title":{"rendered":"Jammeh declares state of emergency in The Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared a 90-day state of emergency a day before his official mandate ends, state TV reports.<\/p>\n<p>Regional leaders have been trying to persuade Mr Jammeh to hand over power to Adama Barrow, who defeated him in December&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after Nigeria deployed a warship to further pressure Mr Jammeh.<\/p>\n<p>Regional bloc Ecowas has prepared a force but maintains that military intervention would be a last resort.<\/p>\n<p>The exact terms of the state of emergency remain unknown, as no details were provided with the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Barrow is meant to be inaugurated as the new president on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared a 90-day state of emergency a day before his official mandate ends, state TV reports. Regional leaders have been trying to persuade Mr Jammeh to hand over power to Adama Barrow, who defeated him in December&#8217;s elections. The move comes after Nigeria deployed a warship to further pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[107],"tags":[2692,2435,2436,2760],"class_list":["post-285729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-adama-barrow","tag-gambia-news","tag-gambia-president","tag-jammeh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285729","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}