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> Jammeh's eccentricities often made headlines. He once said he had invented a herbal cure for AIDS that only works on a Thursdays. Once every year he also invited a few hundred women to the grounds of State House, where he personally administered a another herbal cure he had concocted for infertility.

Yeah, that sounds like someone who's gonna peacefully accept election results.



That's why everybody uses the word "shock"

He has not publicly conceded yet (so we may still get a surprise) but :

- his electoral commission has announced the results

- the head of his electoral commission has announced Jammeh will conceide

- rumour says his concession video has been recorded

- the internet that has been cut-off on election's eve is functionning again

- soldiers who were deployed have left the streets

It really sound this is happening


> - soldiers who were deployed have left the streets

Is it known whether or not the soldiers in this case are loyal to Jammeh? Just thinking about what happened in Burkina with Compaoré.


According to the BBC article he has conceded. It may have been hearsay, I don't recall at the moment


Jammeh's official title is also 'His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Aziz Awal Jemus Junkung Jammeh Naasiru Deen Babili Mansa" though he's been dropping some titles lately, perhaps he is becoming more sane with age maybe he will concede.


I take offense in you correctly pronouncing that name. Such length is concatenated with the purpose of flinging missrey on those who have to speak them. Behave accordingly.


What?


It is a misfired gag. Basically, a totalitarian emperor, could terrorize his people by making it necessary to greet him in full name- and make that name hard to pronounce and long beyond the wildest dream.

Sorry, the posts irony didn`t really stand out.



Some of those things are pretty true imo (and liberal leaning... the situation in Israel/Palestine being one) and other seem like the ramblings of a conservative mad man.




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