Gambia’s President to embark on a tour of ECOWAS countries that helped him to assume office

  

   Gambia’s President, Adama Barrow, is to embark on a tour of ECOWAS countries that helped him to assume office.

   He assumed office after disputed elections last year which ECOWAS leaders judged to be free and fair.
   A statement from his office said he had been scheduled to arrive in the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, on Wednesday. Barrow will also visit Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria.
   President Barrow early in March fulfilled his promise to make his first international outing to Gambia’s next door neighbour, Senegal, as the leading player in the resolution of the post-December poll standoff.
   His ECOWAS tour comes about a week after a controversial visit to the Republic of Congo Brazzaville, which divided his country over the alleged undemocratic credentials of President Dennis Sassou Nguesso.