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| Gambia's Jammeh 'to quit and leave', says Adama Barrow | |
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| The Gambia's leader Yahya Jammeh will step down and leave the country, his elected successor says. | |
| Adama Barrow made the announcement on Twitter, after hours of talks aimed at persuading Mr Jammeh to recognise the result of the presidential election. | |
| West African nations have deployed troops in The Gambia threatening to drive him out of office by force. | |
| Mr Barrow has been in neighbouring Senegal for days. He was sworn in in the Gambian embassy there on Thursday. | |
| His legitimacy as president has been recognised internationally, after he won last month's elections. | |
| Mr Jammeh was given an ultimatum to leave office or be forced out by UN-backed troops, which expired at 16:00 GMT on Friday. | |
| The deadline was set by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), a regional grouping backed by the United Nations. | |
| The presidents of Guinea and Mauritania were locked in talks with Mr Jammeh for hours on Friday negotiating his future. | |
| But the motorcade for the delegation of West African leaders was later seen leaving Gambia's presidential residence, according to Reuters news agency. | |
| It was not immediately clear if Mr Jammeh was inside one of the dozens of vehicles. | |
| Mr Jammeh's term expired at midnight on Wednesday - but, while still president, he engineered a parliamentary vote to extend his presidency. As Mr Barrow has already been sworn in, the country could be said to have two presidents at the same time. | |
| Ecowas said that its forces, from Senegal and other West African countries, had encountered no resistance after entering The Gambia. | |
| Why has Mr Jammeh been refusing to go? | |
| After first accepting defeat in the election he reversed his position and said he would not step down. He declared a 90-day state of emergency, blaming irregularities in the electoral process. | |
| The electoral commission accepted that some of its early results had contained errors but said they would not have affected Mr Barrow's win. | |
| Mr Jammeh had said he would stay in office until new elections were held. |