Gambia Decides: President Jammeh loses election to Adama Barrow after 22 years in power

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    00 Gambia Decides: President Jammeh loses election to Adama Barrow after 22 years in power

    Adama Narrow (pictured right) has been declared winner of Gambia Presidential
    election after defeating President Yahya Jammeh, who has been in power
    since 1994.

    Adama garnered who was a former security guard 263,515 votes while Jammeh won
    212,090 votes, Alieu Momar Njie, head of electoral commission announced
    in the capital Banjul on Friday.
    Barrow,
    a property developer, will become the county’s third head of state
    since independence in 1962. He once worked as a security guard at a
    branch of Argos in London.

    Mr Jammeh, who came to power in 1994,
    as a 29-year-old army officer…



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