BANJUL, Gambia - Adama Barrow comfortably won a second term in The Gambia's presidential election, with thousands of his supporters celebrating in the streets of Banjul, although his opponents dispute
BANJUL, Gambia - Adama Barrow comfortably won a second term in The Gambia's presidential election, with thousands of his supporters celebrating in the streets of Banjul, although his opponents disputed the results announced late Sunday.
Crowds of Barrow's supporters marched through the streets of the capital to a din of horns and danced on a vast esplanade. "At this stage we reject the results announced so far", Darboe and two other candidates said in a joint statement. "All actions are on table." He was forced into exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after Barrow, then a relative unknown, defeated him at the ballot box.
The Gambia, a sliver of land about 480 kilometres long surrounded by Senegal, is one of the poorest countries in the world.The tourism-dependent economy was dealt a severe blow by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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