GAMBIA, 2016- 2017.

Crisis and conflict have become constant features of countries in West Africa, from civil war in Liberia between1989 and 2003, Sierra Leone from1991 to 2002, to insurgency and instability in Mali, Nigeria, Guinea, and Mali. Election crisis has plunged some West African states into a battlefield between supporters of the contending parties in the election as in Cote d’Ivoire and Madagascar, and this has resulted in a state of instability in these states. When Gambians went to the polls on December 1, 2016 to decide who their next president will be, the country did not know that a change is about to take place in the country’s highest seat of authority, that is, Yayha Jammeh, who has been in power since he led a military coup against President Dawda Jawara in 1994, would lose his bid to became Gambia’s president for the fifth term to the opposition leader Adama Barrow.