Outgoing president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, has emerged with a new list of cabinet appointees and warned newly sworn in president Adama Barrow that he will file a case against to unconstitutionally overthrow his administration.
Mr Barrow, who took oath as the next Gambia’s president on Thursday in Dakar, Senegal, vowed not to return to his country’s capital, Banjul, until the military operation had ended and Mr Jammeh removed from office.
Troops from Senegal and other West African countries have already crossed into The Gambia, after an initial deadline for Mr Jammeh to stand down passed.
A Senegalese army spokesman, Col Abdou Ndiaye, announced that troops who were now in The Gambia were prepared to fight if necessary.
“It is already war, if we find any resistance, we will fight it,” he said.
Chairman of the Ecowas Commission, Marcel Alain de Souza, said that if Jammeh fails to surrender by midday of Friday, 20 January, the military will intervene with full force.
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