The African Union has called a statement by Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh rejecting his loss in the December 1st polls “null and void” since he had already conceded defeat.<\/p>\n
The Chairperson of the Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma strongly urges President Yahya Jammeh to facilitate a peaceful and orderly transition and transfer of power.<\/p>\n
“The Chairperson of the Commission strongly urges President Yahya Jammeh to facilitate a peaceful and orderly transition and transfer of power,” said Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma .<\/span><\/p>\n She has also called on Gambia’s security forces to remain neutral.<\/p>\n This is after Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh rejected the result of the presidential election held earlier this month, a week after admitting defeat.<\/p>\n Speaking on state Television Jammeh cited “abnormalities” in the vote and called for fresh elections.<\/p>\n Jammeh, who came to power in a coup in 1994, suffered a shock defeat to Adama Barrow, who won more than 45% of the vote.<\/p>\n The US too has “strongly condemned” Mr Jammeh’s statement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The African Union has called a statement by Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh rejecting his loss in the December 1st polls “null and void” since he had already conceded defeat. The Chairperson of the Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma strongly urges President Yahya Jammeh to facilitate a peaceful and orderly transition and transfer of power. “The Chairperson of the Commission strongly urges President Yahya Jammeh to facilitate a peaceful and orderly transition and transfer of power,” said Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma . She has also called on Gambia’s security forces to remain neutral. This is after Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh rejected the result of the presidential election held earlier this month, a week after admitting defeat. Speaking on state Television Jammeh cited “abnormalities” in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}