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The country sort of has two presidents right now and there may be a small war to change that.
Back in December, the future seemed pretty clear for Gambia, a tiny West African country ruled for the last 22 years by a man who once said he secretly cured AIDS.
President Yahya Jammeh was running for a fifth term in power and everyone, both inside and out of the country, assumed that it would be smooth sailing for him, given his dictatorial control. Far from being just an eccentric, rights groups accuse his government of being behind an untold number of cases of arbitrary imprisonment, torture, and enforced disappearances.
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BUT PLOT TWIST! Jammeh didn’t win!
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Instead this guy, Adama Barrow, pulled a surprise victory in the final results.
Barrow is a real estate developer who has never held any sort of political office, which may sound a little familiar. But regardless, the country's election commission declared him the winner soon after the polls closed.
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Even more surprising: Jammeh initially accepted the election results, giving his opponent a call on national television and saying that he would leave power.
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