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Gambia's Jammeh loses to Adama Barrow in shock election result
Mr Barrow won 263,515 votes (45.5%) in Thursday's election, while President Jammeh took 212,099 (36.7%), according to the electoral commission. A third party candidate, Mama Kandeh, won 102,969 (17.8%).
The people of Gambia have thrown out the man who has ruled the country with an iron fist for 22 years, in a shock presidential election result that shows even the most entrenched African leader can be defeated at the ballot box.
President Yahya Jammeh was slow to offer his concession on Friday, but eventually admitted poll defeat and vowed to help his successor Adama Barrow after the country’s electoral commission declared he had been comprehensively beaten by the opposition leader.
Soft-spoken and understated, 51-year-old Mr Barrow spent more than three years living in London as a young man, working as an Argos security guard and developing a passion for Arsenal Football Club.
* Source by BBC & Independent UK
President Yahya Jammeh was slow to offer his concession on Friday, but eventually admitted poll defeat and vowed to help his successor Adama Barrow after the country’s electoral commission declared he had been comprehensively beaten by the opposition leader.
Soft-spoken and understated, 51-year-old Mr Barrow spent more than three years living in London as a young man, working as an Argos security guard and developing a passion for Arsenal Football Club.
* Source by BBC & Independent UK
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