What May Likely Happen As Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh Backtracks, Decides To Stay Put

President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia has changed his mind again and has decided to stay put and defend his government. Mr Jammeh was earlier reported to have accepted a last-minute deal brokered by Mauritania’s president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz who was in Banjul on a day’s visit.

The deal included him going into exile in Mauritania.

He later had a change of heart and said he will only go into exile if judges at the Supreme Court rule against his petition in May.

A disappointed President Aziz left Banjul late in the night for Senegal where he held talks with President Mack Sall.