Ex-prisoner sworn into Gambian cabinet as finance minister

Adama Barrow The Gambian President

AFP>>>     A released prisoner has just been made The Gambia’s finance minister.

Among other cabinet members sworn in today was a long-time opponent of Mr Jammeh’s Ousainou Darboe, who spent time in jail as a political prisoner.
According to the AFP news agency, he has been made foreign minister.

Mr Jammeh, who came to power in a bloodless coup in 1994, lost elections in December to Adama Barrow, who was backed by a coalition of opposition parties.

At first he accepted defeat, but then tried to get the results annulled.

West African leaders sent troops into The Gambia on the day Mr Jammeh was officially supposed to hand over power – and mediated his exit to Equatorial Guinea