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
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/23/gambias-defeated-president-finally-gave-up-power-and-took-luxury-cars-and-millions-of-dollars-with-him/?utm_term=.7d657f97a5c3
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The Washington Post
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AP
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2017-01-23
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Gambia's defeated leader Yahya Jammeh left the country to fly into exile in Equatorial Guinea