Jubilation on the streets as Gambia verges on a new democratic era

Gambians had felt a mix of dread and hope about Thursday — Inauguration Day — for weeks. Yahya Jammeh, the iron-fisted and unpredictable dictator who ruled the West African country for 22 years, had decided to strong-arm his way into another term as president despite losing a Dec. 1 election to Adama Barrow. Before Jammeh's coup-de-etat […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/01/19/jubilation-on-the-streets-as-gambia-verges-on-a-new-democratic-era/