Saturday, January 21, 2017 marks the day on which the suffering people of The Gambia were finally freed from the tyranny of their brutal and murderous dictator, Yahya Jammeh. When the Daily Observer, The Gambia’s first professional newspaper and first daily, founded by Liberian Publisher Kenneth Y. As the people approached the 2016 elections, the country’s numerous opposition parties decided to unite, and they put forward ONE candidate, Adama Barrow, to stand against Yahya Jammeh. They were led by the regional power, ECOWAS, whose President, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, took the bull by the horns, vigorously assisted by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, outgoing PresidentJohn Mahama of Ghana and Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, UN Special Representative for West Africa. The international community must now decide what next to do with Yahya Jammeh.

Source: Daily Observer January 23, 2017 01:13 UTC