Ex-president Of Gambia Accused Of Looting Millions

BANJUL, Gambia — Exiled Gambian ruler Yahya Jammeh stole millions of dollars in his final weeks in power, plundering the country’s coffers and shipping luxury vehicles by cargo plane, a special adviser for the new president said Sunday. [...] a regional military force worked to secure the tiny West African nation so that the democratically elected president, Adama Barrow, could return home after taking the oath of office in neighboring Senegal on Thursday because of concerns for his safety. Jammeh’s agreement to step down brought an end to a political crisis in the tiny nation of 1.9 million that brought it to the brink of a regional military intervention. Barrow, who defeated Jammeh in December elections, will begin forming a Cabinet and working with Gambia’s national assembly to reverse the state of emergency Jammeh declared in his final days in power, said Halifa Sallah, spokesman for the coalition backing the new leader.

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