GAMBIA
JEROME DELAY/AP
Banjul, Gambia— Hours after Yahya Jammeh, Gambia’s longtime authoritarian leader, announced he would step down, people returned to the capital by ferry on January 21. Fearing violence, tens of thousands had absconded to Senegal in December after Jammeh lost the presidential election but refused to step down. The winner, Adama Barrow, escaped across the border as well and was sworn into office in the Gambian Embassy in Dakar, the Senegalese capital. Jammeh has fled to Equatorial Guinea in an apparent effort to avoid extradition; according to Barrow’s aides, he took $11 million in public funds with him.