Outcry over crackdown in the Gambia as president refuses to quitHuman rights groups have criticised authorities in the Gambia after police arrested 137 people, injured dozens and detained prominent journalists amid protests calling for the president to honour a pledge to step down after three years in office. Amnesty International said the crackdown on protesters had alarming echoes of the Gambia’s brutal past and would fuel tensions. There is no transitional president, he’s not a transitional president. He’s an elected president and executive president,” Barrow’s close adviser Seedy Njie told the Guardian last year. In July, dozens of protesters calling for better services in the city of Brikama were tear-gassed and hospitalised.

Source: The Guardian January 28, 2020 13:27 UTC