{"id":2648,"date":"2018-12-11T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:30:19","slug":"former-gambian-president-yahya-jammeh-blocked-from-entering-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2018\/12\/11\/former-gambian-president-yahya-jammeh-blocked-from-entering-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh blocked from entering US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has barred former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/gambia.html\">Gambian<\/a>\u00a0President Yahya Jammeh and members of his immediate family from entering the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The decision announced on Monday comes almost two years after Jammeh was forced into exile in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/equatorial-guinea.html\">Equatorial Guinea<\/a>\u00a0after he refused to concede defeat in a presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Jammeh ruled the tiny West African country for two decades.\u00a0He lost a democratic election to Adama Barrow in December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0Jammeh\u00a0refused to step down, which prompted a military threat by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/african-union.html\">African Union<\/a>\u00a0and the West African regional body ECOWAS. He fled to Equatorial Guinea in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said\u00a0Jammeh\u00a0is now being banned entry to the country under a category that applies to foreign government officials who are believed to have committed &#8220;significant corruption or a gross violation of human rights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Jammeh, his wife Zineb, and their daughter Mariam and son Muhammad are also being blocked.<\/p>\n<p>The Barrow government reported that Jammeh stole at least $50m from the country while in office.<\/p>\n<p>Jammeh, who attended a military training course in Alabama, owns real estate\u00a0in Potomac, Maryland, about\u00a024km from Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>An estate previously owned by former American basketball player\u00a0Calbert Cheaney, it was sold to the Jammeh family trust in 2010 for $3.5m, according to public records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has barred former\u00a0Gambian\u00a0President Yahya Jammeh and members of his immediate family from entering the\u00a0United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}