The Gambian government on Friday charged eight soldiers with treason in connection with an alleged coup attempt last month, a government spokesperson said in a statement.
The West African nation last week set up an “investigative panel” to probe the alleged coup and gave it 30 days to report.
On Thursday, in the first details of the coup bid, national security adviser Abubakarr Suleiman Jeng said the plotters aimed to “arrest cabinet ministers and senior government officials to use them as hostages to prevent any foreign intervention. “They also had plans to retire all senior military officers from the rank of major and above and restructure ,” he told reporters in the capital, Banjul.He was defeated in a presidential election in December 2016 by political newcomer Adama Barrow and fled to Equatorial Guinea but retains influential back home.All rights reserved.
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