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| Yahya Jammeh |
Banjul - Gambia's
president Yahya Jammeh reshuffled three major posts in his government, state
television reported, a week after a failed coup attempt in the west African
nation.
No
reason was given in the report late on Monday for the changes at the ministries
of foreign affairs, information and transport, but they follow an attack by
gunmen on the capital, Banjul, when Jammeh was out of the country late last
month.
Neneh
MacDouall-Gaye, a former information minister, has been named as foreign
affairs minister. Sheriff Bojang, managing editor at The Standard newspaper,
was named information minister. Bala Garba Jahumpa, the outgoing foreign
minister, will now head the transport ministry.
Jammeh, who came to power
in a 1994 coup, has accused foreign-based dissidents of being behind the coup
bid. Security forces have made a number of arrests but few details have been
released, stoking fears of abuses in a country with a poor human rights record.
Prosecutors
in the United States on Monday charged a Texas businessman with bankrolling and
trying to lead the coup with the support of a former US Army sergeant.
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