Gambia’s defeated president finally relinquished power but held on to luxury cars and millions of d
As the plane carrying Gambia's disgraced former president prepared to depart the small west African country on Saturday, onlookers caught a last glimpse of Yahya Jammeh's face through the window.
Gambia constitutional mechanism is a failure, and the country needs comprehensive constitutional reform. The president should serve a single 5-year term and be barred from seeking office again for 6 years. Laws not backed by penalties are not laws, and a constitution which does not provide for the right to resist is not a constitution. When the president’s actions are unconstitutional, the people have the right to resist, and when dictatorship becomes a reality, the people are obligated to rise up. See the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development