On January 19, 2017, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution urging ”all Gambian parties and stakeholders to respect the will of the people and the outcome of the election which recognized Adama Barrow as President-elect of The Gambia and representative of the freely expressed voice of the Gambian people as proclaimed by the Independent Electoral Commission.”  The resolution follows recent turmoil in the Gambia over the defeat of former president Yahya Jammeh in general elections and his refusal to cede the office to the newly elected President Barrow. Since the passing of the resolution, troops from neighboring Senegal crossed the border into the Gambia under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States and President Barrow was sworn into office at the Gambian embassy in Senegal. Jammeh ultimately relinquished his post and fled into exile; the Gambian parliament meanwhile ended the state of emergency it had declared a week earlier and nullified a three-month extension of mandate previously granted to Jammeh.