The ex-president, Yahya Jammeh, fled to Equatorial Guinea in January after regional troops entered the tiny West African state to force him to concede defeat to Adama Barrow who had won the December 2016 Presidential election held in the country.
As President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, gets ready to officially assume office, he has praised the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, for its intervention to ensure a successful transfer of power in his country.