{"id":79636,"date":"2015-01-06T06:22:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T06:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79636"},"modified":"2015-01-06T07:10:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T07:10:37","slug":"two-charged-gambia-coup-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=79636","title":{"rendered":"Two charged over Gambia &#8216;coup plot&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"introduction\">Two men have been charged in the United States with attempting to overthrow The Gambia&#8217;s President Yahya Jammeh, the justice department has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">According to the BBC,the two, who are of Gambian origin have been accused of conspiring against a friendly nation and conspiring to possess firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;QOIKbonw6M8aVCHAMzLFQviWNfrcXqEp&#8221;]Earlier reports indicated that an ex-army commander <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/30\/reports-attempted-coup-gambia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>tried to take control of the country<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>while he was visiting France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Heavy gunfire was heard near the presidential palace in Banjul on December 31, 2014 but officials <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/31\/gambia-leader-returns-home-coup-plot\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>said the military takeover was thwarted.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Jammeh seized power in 1994 at the age of 29.He has been accused of stamping out opposition and claims to be able to cure HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">In 2011, he told the BBC that he would rule for a billion years According to the BBC, Jammeh has won several elections since seizing power but critics say they were neither free nor fair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Several officials and opposition leaders have fled the country because of Jammeh, saying they fear for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The US Justice department revealed in a statement that between 10 and 12 people had entered The Gambia to overthrow Mr Jammeh, &#8220;with the expectation that others in the country would join and assist them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They included US citizen Cherno Njie, 57, and US-Gambian dual national Papa Faal, 46, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These defendants stand accused of conspiring to carry out the violent overthrow of a foreign government, in violation of US law,&#8221; Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been charged in the United States with attempting to overthrow The Gambia&#8217;s President Yahya Jammeh, the justice department has revealed. According to the BBC,the two, who are of Gambian origin have been accused of conspiring against a friendly nation and conspiring to possess firearms. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;QOIKbonw6M8aVCHAMzLFQviWNfrcXqEp&#8221;]Earlier reports indicated that an ex-army commander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16172,"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":[38,14],"class_list":["post-79636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79636","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=79636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}