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Gambia: Breaking News: Gambia’s Newest President Says “The New Era Of Gambia Is Here At Last.”
“My dearest Gambians the presidency of Yahya Jammeh is officially over. The new era of Gambia is here at last,” said President elect Adama Barrow in a twitter posting shortly past midnight after the expiration of Jammeh’s presidential term mandate.
Mr. Barrow, will be sworn in today as Gambia’s third president since independence from Great Britain. He has backing of the West African bloc ECOWAS, the AU, EU, and the United Nations.
Meanwhile, African troops are moving towards The Gambia to help oversee the inauguration of president elect Barrow. Senegal, is leading the military operation. A Senegalese Colonel, who goes with the last name Ndiaye was quoted as saying that: “ We are ready and are awaiting the deadline at midnight. If no political solution is found, we will step in.”
The Gambian military will likely not put up any resistance to the foreign troops, said a source close to the corridor of power. The majority of the personnel of the army believe that Barrow is the legitimate president elect, and they would not shed blood and tears for Jammeh, our source added.
Banjul is calm as we file this report. It is a virtual ghost city. There are military checkpoints mounted around the city centre.
Thousands of Gambians have fled to neighboring Senegal, in search of safety. Western tourists have also been evacuated from the country, ahead of the possible military showdown in Banjul on Thursday.
Gambia: Gambia’s Defiant Dictator’s Term Expires
It is past midnight Gambian time, and there is no indication that dictator Yahya Jammeh will step down from power. Mr. Jammeh is yet to vacate the State House. He met with the Mauritanian Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, hours before the expiration of his five-year mandate.
Reports have it that the Mauritanian President was in Banjul to negotiate for Mr. Jammeh’s safe exit from the presidency. Details of that meeting are not forthcoming. The two leaders had private talks before President Aziz, proceeded to Dakar, Senegal, to meet with President Macky Sall, Senegal.
Observers are hopeful that the Dakar meeting might yield a breakthrough. Jammeh might likely back-down from his earlier stance that he will not relinquish power without the exhaustion of his pending election petition before the supreme court.
President elect Barrow, is due to be officially sworn in today. He is Gambia’s third president since independence back 1965. Mr. Barrow, has the backing of the ECOWAS bloc, the African Union, the United Nations and the International Community.
Thousands flee Gambia as crisis deepens
Large numbers of Gambians have fled their homes and soldiers from neighbouring Senegal have begun moving towards the borders amid a deepening political crisis.
Yahya Jammeh, who lost a December 1 presidential vote to opposition leader Adama Barrow, is refusing to step down, despite international condemnation and a threat of a military intervention by West African countries to enforce his election defeat.
The president's mandate expires on Thursday, and Barrow - who is currently in Senegal - has pledged to go ahead with his inauguration on Thursday.
Halifa Sallah, a spokesman for the president-elect, said if Jammeh
refused to step down by midnight, the inauguration would take place at the Gambian embassy in Dakar.
refused to step down by midnight, the inauguration would take place at the Gambian embassy in Dakar.
Late on Wednesday, witnesses reported seeing Senegalese soldiers in both the Kaolack region of Senegal to the north of Gambia, and in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance.
Gambia is completely surrounded by Senegal and the Atlantic Ocean.
Colonel Abdou Ndiaye, a spokesman for the Senegal army, told Reuters news agency that Senegalese troops arrived at the Gambian border late on Wednesday.
"We are ready and are awaiting the deadline at midnight. If no political solution is found, we will step in," Ndiaye said.
After the midnight deadline, there was no word from Jammeh.
Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, reporting from Nigeria's capital, Abuja, said that according to multiple security sources, a "deployment comprising of air component, the navy as well as ground troops was under way to go to Gambia.
"A ship of the Nigerian navy is off the coast of Ghana on the way to Gambia, and there are reports that Ghana may also be contributing to the troops' deployment to Gambia, in addition to Senegal."
In a Facebook post, Mai Ahmad Fatty, Barrow's special adviser, advised Gambians to stay indoors.
"Those who resist peaceful change effective 12 midnight tonight shall face definite consequences, to their peril," he wrote.
"Anyone with firearms tonight shall be deemed a rebel, and will certainly become a legitimate target."
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As the crisis has deepened, hundreds of tourists have departed from Gambia, a popular winter destination in West Africa for visitors, especially from Britain, the former colonial power.
The streets of the capital, Banjul, were largely empty by late afternoon on Wednesday.
"The town today has been calm, especially downtown has been almost deserted,” Katerina Hoije, a Banjul-based journalist, told Al Jazeera.
"Shopkeepers have kept their stores closed while police and military have been patrolling the neighbourhoods in the city centre.
"In other neighbourhoods of the town, further away from the government buildings, life goes on as usual but of course there is an anticipation of what is going to happen on Thursday."
At least 26,000 people have fled Gambia for Senegal since the start of the crisis fearing unrest, the UN's refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday, citing Senegalese government figures.
At the Bundung Garage bus station in Banjul, women carrying infants strapped to their backs queued up to get the belongings they had salvaged onto buses bound for the southern border with Senegal.
Men and children sat patiently amid piles of suitcases, rolled up foam mattresses, bags of rice and bottles of cooking oil.
Others fled on pirogues across the river that splits the country down the middle.
Term extended
A former coup leader who has ruled the small West African country since 1994, Jammeh initially conceded defeat but a week later contested the poll's results stating irregularities.
In a sign he is digging in, Gambia's National Assembly passed a resolution on Wednesday to allow Jammeh to stay in office for three more months from Wednesday.
The decision came a day after Jammeh declared a 90-day state of emergency, alleging "unprecedented and extraordinary amount of foreign interference" in the country's internal affairs.
But Jammeh's allies have deserted in their droves - at least eight ministers have so far resigned of whom four quit in the past 48 hours - and it is unclear how many of his own armed forces will be willing to defend him once his mandate expires.
Gambia is one of Africa's smallest countries and has had just two rulers since independence in 1965.
Source: Al Jazeera and new
Gambia political crisis: What happens next?
Yahya Jammeh is refusing to stand down and has the support of his army chief
A political crisis in The Gambia appears to be coming to a head, with Senegalese troops massing on the border as a deadline for President Yahya Jammeh to step down came and went without any apparent change of heart from him. Mr Jammeh has refused to admit defeat in last month's elections and is still trying to hold on to his position. What happens next?
Why are there troops on the border?
Ecowas, the Economic Community of West African States, has mandated Senegal, which almost surrounds The Gambia, to spearhead military intervention, but only as a last resort and with the backing of the UN Security Council.
Wednesday was meant to be Mr Jammeh's last official day in office, but parliament extended his presidency by three more months. Still, Senegal set a deadline of midnight GMT for him to step down.
"If no political solution is found, we will step in," Col Abdou Ndiaye, a spokesman for the Senegalese military, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Nigeria has also sent aircraft and troops to Senegal, and deployed a warship.
Senegal has reportedly circulated a draft UN Security Council Resolution that would back Ecowas taking "all necessary measures" to get Mr Jammeh to step down.
What is the significance of the state of emergency?
Mr Jammeh's declaration of a state of emergency on his penultimate day in office has raised the stakes in his battle to remain in power.
The Gambian president said the state of emergency would prevent a power vacuum while the Supreme Court considered his legal challenge to December's election result. It cannot sit until at least May, due to a lack of judges, who must be provided by The Gambia's West African neighbours.
Analysts said the move, along with parliament's extension of his term, clearly signalled his rejection of mediation efforts.
Gambia is a popular tourist destination and after the British Foreign Office updated its travel advice, holiday companies have started evacuating tourists.
Where does this leave the election winner, Adama Barrow?
Mr Barrow, who is in neighbouring Senegal, said before the declaration of the state of emergency that his inauguration would go ahead on Thursday on Gambian territory.
The plan was for the swearing-in ceremony to take place at the National Stadium in Bakau but, given Mr Jammeh's latest moves, those plans must now be viewed as being in severe doubt.
There had also been no word on who would conduct the swearing-in - it is usually done by the country's chief justice but lawyers say that, under the Gambian constitution, this is not necessary and it could be carried out even by a commissioner of oaths.
How are the Gambian people reacting?
Tension is high in the Gambian capital, Banjul, over concerns that the political conflict will continue to escalate. Checkpoints across the city are being manned by heavily armed security forces.
Thousands of people have fled to neighbouring countries or rural areas, fearing that violence may erupt. Before the declaration of the state of emergency, Mr Barrow's coalition urged Gambians to "exercise restraint, observe the rule of law and not to respond to provocation".
The BBC's Umaru Fofana, who is in Banjul, says people there are petrified. They are stocking up on food and water. Everyone is praying for a peaceful resolution, he says.
What is Mr Jammeh's position?
Mr Jammeh, who seized power in a 1994 coup, initially accepted that Mr Barrow had won the election but later reversed his position and said he would not step down.
He filed a petition to the Supreme Court, challenging the election results, and says the existence of this legal process means it would be unconstitutional for Mr Barrow to assume office.
He also asked the Supreme Court for an injunction to stop the inauguration but the chief justice declined to rule on it, saying he must recuse himself from any case that could affect his own position - he would normally conduct the swearing in ceremony.
The secretary general of the Gambia Bar Association, Aziz Bensouda, said any such injunction would be unconstitutional.
Why is Mr Jammeh refusing to leave office?
Mr Jammeh has said there were irregularities in the election process, including the turning away of some of his supporters from polling stations, and errors made by the electoral commission.
The commission accepted that some of the results it initially published contained errors, but said Mr Barrow still won.
Mr Jammeh has said he will stay in office until new elections are held. Retaining power would also ensure he was not prosecuted in The Gambia for alleged abuses committed during his rule.
How have his allies reacted?
Ministers are continuing to desert Mr Jammeh's government. Four cabinet members, including the ministers of finance and foreign affairs, resigned on Tuesday. They join another two, who quit last week over the president's refusal to accept electoral defeat.
One of the ministers who resigned, former information chief Sheriff Bojang, said Mr Jammeh's arguments had a "veneer of constitutionalism" but were an attempt to subvert the will of the Gambian people. The international community has sided with Mr Barrow, saying he won fairly.
The Gambian army chief has declared his loyalty to Mr Jammeh.
The elite regiment of the army is also fiercely loyal, but other elements of the military may be less so.
Correspondents say there has been talk that some are unhappy with recent events and want a peaceful resolution.
What is happening at the Supreme Court?
Judges from Nigeria and Sierra Leone have been hired to hear the petition to overturn the election result, but they have yet to arrive in Banjul.
Gambian chief justice Emmanuel Fagbenle has said the court will be able to convene no earlier than May, and possibly not until November, because the Nigerian who is to act as court president, Onogeme Uduma, is fully booked for the coming months.
How might this be resolved?
Mr Barrow has distanced himself from comments, made by other opposition figures, suggesting Mr Jammeh may be prosecuted over alleged abuses in power.
He said Mr Jammeh should be able to stay in The Gambia and would be honoured as, and receive the privileges of, a former head of state if he stepped down.
However, analysts say Mr Jammeh is unlikely to be persuaded by his opponent's apparently conciliatory language.
Another option, raised by Nigerian MPs, is that Mr Jammeh could be offered asylum and a comfortable retirement in another African country.
Besides Nigeria, Morocco has been mooted as a possible destination (Mr Jammeh's wife is Moroccan).
A third possibility has been made more likely by Mr Jammeh's declaration of a state of emergency - that, in the absence of a clear court ruling, Mr Jammeh attempts to cling to power with army backing, pending military intervention by regional powers.
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