Adama Barrow sworn into office in Senegal
The UN Security Council votes to back Ecowas’s efforts to ensure Yahya Jammeh leaves
Dakar — Adama Barrow was sworn into office as the president of Gambia at a ceremony in neighbouring Senegal as mediators sought to negotiate an amnesty deal with the outgoing leader to stave off military intervention by West African states. Barrow, 51, decided to take his oath at the Gambian embassy in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, after Yahya Jammeh, who lost the presidential election, refused to leave office and called for new elections. The ceremony was broadcast live on Thursday on Senegal’s RTS television. "This is a victory of the Gambian nation," Barrow said in his inaugural address. The armed forces should "demonstrate their loyalty to me as their commander-in-chief". The UN Security Council on Thursday backed efforts by the Economic Community of West African States to ensure Barrow assumed power, but stressed it should be pursued by political means first. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a Senegalese-drafted resolution that expressed "its full support to Ecowas in...
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