{"id":286777,"date":"2017-01-20T19:05:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=286777"},"modified":"2017-01-20T19:05:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:05:42","slug":"gambias-yahya-jammeh-agrees-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=286777","title":{"rendered":"Gambia&#8217;s Yahya Jammeh &#8216;agrees to step down&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gambia&#8217;s new president has said that Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the country for 22 years and refused to step down after losing the recent election, has finally &#8220;agreed to leave&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on Twitter on Friday, Adama Barrow said Jammeh would also leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to inform you that Yahya Jammeh has agreed to step down. He is scheduled to depart Gambia today. #NewGambia,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I would like to inform you that Yaya Jammeh agreed to relinquish power and leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adama Barrow (@BarrowOfficial1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarrowOfficial1\/status\/822515802054201344\">January 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Barrow was sworn-in at\u00a0Gambia&#8217;s embassy in Dakar in neighbouring Senegal, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Red carpets were on Friday reportedly laid out at the airport in Gambia&#8217;s capital in what appeared to be preparations for a speech by Jammeh and a departure.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, Gambia&#8217;s chief of defence forces Ousmane Badjie\u00a0pledged his allegiance to the country&#8217;s new president, a major shift as mediation continued to persuade defeated Jammeh to cede power.<\/p>\n<p>Jammeh had rejected Barrow&#8217;s December 1 election win, despite significant pressure from regional powers and the UN, sparking a major crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Aljazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gambia&#8217;s new president has said that Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the country for 22 years and refused to step down after losing the recent election, has finally &#8220;agreed to leave&#8221;. Writing on Twitter on Friday, Adama Barrow said Jammeh would also leave the country. &#8220;I would like to inform you that Yahya Jammeh has agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":281215,"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":[107,11],"tags":[2435,3258,3259,2437],"class_list":["post-286777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-top-stories","tag-gambia-news","tag-jammeh-news","tag-jammeh-steps-down","tag-yahya-jammeh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286777","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=286777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}