The Vice President of the West African nation of Gambia, Badara Alieu Joof passed away in consequence of an illness in India, acknowledged the nation’s President Adama Barrow, on Wednesday (January 18). The 65-year-faded took region of industrial closing year as the vp and became serving as Gambia’s education minister from 2017 to 2022.
The announcement became made by the West African nation’s president on Twitter who acknowledged that Joof passed away “after a transient illness” nonetheless did no longer provide any additional fundamental aspects about his health condition.
Fellow #Gambians, it’s some distance with a heavy heart that I whine the passing away of my #VicePresident, His Excellency, Badara Alieu Joof. The sad match took region in India after a transient illness. Can also merely Allah grant him Jannahtul Firdawsi.
— President Barrow (@BarrowPresident) January 18, 2023
This comes after the VP left Gambia three weeks ago to glance scientific drugs and became reportedly no longer seen in public for months sooner than his outing. The unhurried VP had also labored in Gambian civil provider in addition to to within the World Financial institution as an Training Specialist for West and Central Africa, reported Al Jazeera.
Based mostly entirely on native media experiences, rumours about his deteriorating health had begun circulating in December closing year. He became appointed as the VP by Barrow who grew to vary into the president after a historic derive within the 2016 election towards Yahya Jammeh. Joof became sworn in a year after the incumbent president won his re-election whisper in 2021.
(With inputs from companies)
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