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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council on Saturday "strongly condemned" outgoing Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, for rejecting official election results, and called on him to "respect the choice of the sovereign people" of the West African country.
In a press statement, the 15-nation UN council also called on the outgoing president to "transfer, without condition and undue delay, power to the president-elect, Mr. Adama Barrow."
"The members of the Security Council urged the outgoing president to carry out a peaceful and orderly transition process and they requested that the security of the president-elect, Adama Barrow, and that of all Gambian citizen be fully ensured," the statement said.
Jammeh on Friday rejected the results of the Dec. 1 election and called on his country to vote again -- a week after initially accepting his defeat.
The outgoing president, who has ruled Gambia since a 1994 military coup, suffered a shocking loss after running for his fifth term.
