ECOWAS Sends another Delegation to Gambia

Mon, Jan 9, 2017
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Africa, BREAKING NEWS

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LEADERS from the Economic Community of West Africa States, ECOWAS, have resolved to send another delegation to pressure Gambian President Yaya Jammeh to hand over power to a duly elected president on January 19.

The leaders reached the decision after a three-hour meeting on Monday, January 9, in Abuja, Nigeria. This may be the last diplomatic shuttle to convince Jammeh to hand over to President-elect Adama Barrow.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the chief mediator of ECOWAS to the Gambia, will led the delegation to Gambia, on Wednesday, January 11, to get Jammeh to respect the country’s constitution.

Geoffrey Onyema, Nigerian minister of foreign Affairs, told journalists after the meeting that leaders are determined to use constitutional measures to settle the brewing political crisis.

He said the meeting agreed Buhari, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, ECOWAS chair and former President John Mahama and that of Sierra-Leone along with the President of the ECOWAS Commission, special representatives of United Nations and also a representative of the African Union to be members of the delegation.

—  Jan 9, 2017 @ 19:00 GMT

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