Gambia’s Barrow vows reforms in security apparatus

‘The Gambia’s new president has vowed that he would carry out drastic reforms in the country’s much-feared security and intelligence apparatus.
Adama Barrow said Saturday that an overhaul would be underway in the Gambia’s security services, a notorious system previously known for hash treatment of the dissent under longtime dictator Yahya Jammeh.
Barrow returned to the Gambia on Thursday after Jammeh was forced from the country he ruled for 22 years. The new president had to take his oath of office in neighboring Senegal after Jammeh refused to accept Barrow’s victory in December elections. Jammeh and associates then fled to Equatorial Guinea fearing a military action by a bloc of Western Africa nations.’
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