PANIC AS GAMBIAN PRESIDENT DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY

President Jammeh
 With only two days left in office, Gambia's leader, Yahya Jammeh, has announced a national highly sensitive situation.
Jammeh in a national TV address on Tuesday, January 17, said that the 90-day measure was fundamental in view of "the uncommon and remarkable measure of outside impedance" in a December 1 presidential vote, which he lost to restriction pioneer Adama Barrow.


The previous upset pioneer likewise refered to outer impedance "the inside issues of The Gambia and the unjustifiable antagonistic air debilitating the sway, peace, security and dependability of the nation".
As per Al-Jazeera's Nicolas Haque, "The choice to pronounce a highly sensitive situation was taken by the national parliament that gathered furtively."
"This means all land, ocean and air outskirts will be closed down. Gambia, starting at right now, is viably on lockdown."
Jammeh who has ruled the little West African nation since 1994, at first yielded vanquish yet after seven days challenged the survey's outcomes expressing abnormalities.
He is declining to venture down notwithstanding universal weight and the danger by other West African countries of a military mediation.
A week ago, Sheriff Bolang, the nation's data serve surrendered and fled over the refusal of Jammeh to venture down after his thrashing in the December, 2016 survey.

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