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Gambia's Jammeh to contest election result in court

Published December 12, 2016 Updated December 12, 2016 12:00am

Gambia's incumbent head of state Yahya Jammeh will contest in court the election victory handed to opposition candidate Adama Barrow, his party has said. In a shock rejection of his defeat at the polls, Jammeh cited in a speech broadcast late Friday "unacceptable errors" by election authorities. He was referring to a readjustment of the votes counted in the December 1 presidential election.