Gambia's Yahya Jammeh loses election to Adama Barrow

Yahya Jammeh, Gambia's long-lasting ruler, has lost the presidential race to the restriction pioneer, as indicated by the discretionary commission.

Adama Barrow's triumph in the West African nation may convey to an end Jammeh's 22-year run the show.

Jammeh, who came to control in 1994 as a 29-year-old armed force officer taking after a military upset, had won four past surveys.

Adama got 263,515 votes while Jammeh won 212,099, Alieu Momarr Njai, the appointive commission head, declared in the capital Banjul on Friday.

"Having gotten 263,515 votes of the aggregate votes cast in the decision, I thusly pronounce Adama Dump cart appropriately chose to serve as president of the Republic of Gambia," Njai said.

Dump cart told Reuters news office by phone on Friday he was expecting a telephone call from Jammeh surrendering rout.

Crush and a concession from Jammeh would be pivotal.

source:aljazeera and agencies.