Source: BBC January 27, 2017
Gambia's President Adama Barrow has
returned to the country to assume power - days after his predecessor
Yahya Jammeh left to go into exile.
President Barrow's plane touched down at Banjul airport where jubilant crowds waited to welcome him.
Mr Barrow, who has been in neighbouring Senegal, won elections in December.
However a handover was stalled when Mr Jammeh, Gambia's president of 22 years, refused to step aside.
He left for exile at the weekend after mediation by regional leaders and the threat of military intervention.
Mr
Barrow, dressed in white robes and a cap, stepped off the plane in
Banjul as heavily armed troops from Senegal and Nigeria stood by.