The African Union has said it will no longer recognise The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh as the country’s leader from next Thursday, when his term ends.
The bloc warns of ‘serious consequences’ if Mr Jammeh’s refusal to give up power causes a crisis…
Nigeria’s leader has flown to Banjul to try to broker a deal but the latest talks appear to have failed.
(BBC, January 13, 2017)
I feared it would come to this:
Alas, Jammeh is just the latest African despot attempting to hold on to power by force…
It eventually took military force to remove Gbagbo. I fear it will take the same to remove Jammeh.
In fact, I’m willing to bet that it’s only a matter of time before Jammeh ends up either like Gbagbo, in The Hague rotting away in jail, or like Laurent Kabila of the Congo, dead. They never learn.
(“The Gambia’s Jammeh Using Military Force after Losing Democratic Election,” December 14, 2016)
Plus ca change….
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