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Gambia's President to embark on ECOWAS countries tour

Xinhua, April 25, 2017 Adjust font size:

The minister of Information and Communications of the Gambia Demba Jawo announced on Tuesday that President Adama Barrow will be embarking on tour of ECOWAS countries who stood for him during the political impasse.

"He is scheduled to commence the tour tomorrow. I understand that he is supposed to visit Ghana, Serra Leone, Nigeria and Liberia," he confirmed to Xinhua on Tuesday evening.

Barrow assumed office after disputed elections last year which ECOWAS leaders considered free and fair.

His predecessor Yahya Jammeh lost election on December 1 and accepted the results but he rejected it a week later claiming the polls were tainted with irregularities.

Ex-president Yahya Jammeh however decided to vacate on January 21 and left the country for his exile destination Equatorial Guinea after a total of 7,000 troops were deployed from Ghana, Senegal and Nigeria with chief military advisers from Burkina Faso and Niger. Endit