Senegal: Troops enter Gambia in effort to get Jammeh to go
By KRISTA LARSON and BABACAR DIONE, Associated Press
Jan 19, 2017 1:10 PM CST
Senegalese Red Cross workers attend to Fatou Jeng, center, after she and her child fled the Gambia at the boarder town of Karang, Senegal, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. Gambia's president-elect said Thursday he will be sworn into office at the Gambian embassy in neighboring Senegal, while there was no word...   (Associated Press)

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's army spokesman says its troops have entered Gambia to get former leader Yahya Jammeh to cede power to the country's newly inaugurated president.

A West African regional force, including Sengalese troops, had been poised on Gambia's borders and moved in Thursday shortly after the U.N. Security Council expressed "full support" for Gambia's new President Adama Barrow and called on Jammeh to respect his election loss.

Barrow was inaugurated in a hastily arranged ceremony in Gambia's embassy in Senegal shortly before the U.N. vote.

Jammeh has not been heard from since his mandate expired at midnight.

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