{"id":32883,"date":"2017-02-28T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gambia-s-new-president-replaces-armed-forces\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T10:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:06:35","slug":"gambia-s-new-president-replaces-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gambia-s-new-president-replaces-armed-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia\u2019s new president replaces armed forces chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Gambia\u2019s President Adama Barrow has fired the head of the armed forces, General Ousman Badjie, a former loyalist of the ousted government, a military source said today.}<\/p>\n

He was replaced by General Masanneh Kinteh, a special military adviser to Barrow since January.<\/p>\n

Barrow retook his oath of office on February 18, a month after he was sworn in across the border in neighbouring Senegal during a tense power struggle with his predecessor Yahya Jammeh, who had refused to step down following his defeat in December elections.<\/p>\n

Mr Barrow told the crowd at his swearing-in he would probe human rights abuses under Jammeh\u2019s mercurial and despotic rule spanning 22 years.<\/p>\n

Badjie, a Jammeh loyalist, had pledged allegiance to Barrow along with top defence, civil service and security chiefs on January 20, one day before the former president fled the country. (AFP)<\/p>\n

The general was also spotted among revellers on the streets of Banjul celebrating Barrow\u2019s inauguration in Senegal.<\/p>\n

The military source said Badjie would be redeployed to a foreign mission, but has yet to be told which one.<\/p>\n

Kinteh was first named as armed forces chief in October 2009 following the removal and arrest of his predecessor, General Lang Tombong Tamba.<\/p>\n

He was dismissed in July 2012 and appointed Gambia\u2019s ambassador to Cuba, and replaced by Badjie.<\/p>\n

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Source:AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{Gambia\u2019s President Adama Barrow has fired the head of the armed forces, General Ousman Badjie, a former loyalist of the ousted government, a military source said today.} He was replaced by General Masanneh Kinteh, a special military adviser to Barrow since January. Barrow retook his oath of office on February 18, a month after he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[100],"byline":[228],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-africa","byline-afp"],"bylines":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":71}],"contributors":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":71}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32883"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32883"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}