(2 Dec 2016) Gambians celebrated in the streets of Banjul on Friday after election officials said the ruler of more than two decades would concede defeat in a startling turn of events for a country where the critics have long alleged votes are rigged and opponents jailed.
President Yahya Jammeh was expected to address the nation Friday evening, although already his fate appeared all but sealed by the unprecedented crowds publicly cheering his ouster.
Jammeh finished with just 36 percent of the vote in the presidential election compared with the winner Adama Barrow with 45 percent, according to the national election commission.
Just days earlier, Jammeh had declared that no demonstrations of any kind would be permitted regardless of the vote's outcome.
News of Barrow's victory prompted thousands to take to the streets in celebration - some on foot while others rode in cars and trucks and on motorbikes - as soldiers looked on.
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