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		</div><p>Gambia&#8217;s former leader Yahya Jammeh has arrived at Banjul Airport after finally agreeing to accept defeat.</p>
<p>Earlier, the Department of Foreign Affairs said it was in close contact with a small number of Irish citizens who had remained in Gambia despite a chaotic exodus of holidaymakers earlier this week, as the country teetered on the brink of a military conflict.</p>
<p>The UN Security Council had backed an effort by regional states to remove Yahya Jammeh as president.</p>
<p>Adama Barrow told The Associated Press in an interview on Saturday that he will enter Gambia once a security sweep has been completed.</p>
<p>He has been in neighbouring Senegal for his safety during a political stand-off that came to the brink of a regional military intervention.</p>
<p>Mr Barrow, who won December&#8217;s presidential elections, spoke just hours after Mr Jammeh announced he would relinquish power, ending hours of last-minute negotiations with the leaders of Guinea and Mauritania.</p>
<p>He said he has not yet been given the communique which should spell out the terms of Mr Jammeh&#8217;s departure. <i>&#8220;What is fundamental here is he will live in a foreign country as of now,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p>Mr Barrow was inaugurated on Thursday at Gambia&#8217;s embassy in Senegal, with the backing of the international community.</p>
<p>As Mr Jammeh prepared to leave the country after more than 22 years in power, human-rights activists demanded he be held accountable for alleged abuses, including torture and detention of opponents.</p>
<p>It was those concerns about prosecution that led Mr Jammeh to challenge the December election results just days after shocking Gambians by conceding his loss to Mr Barrow.</p>
<p>Jeggan Bahoum, of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in Gambia, said: <i>&#8220;Jammeh came as a pauper bearing guns. He should leave as a disrobed despot.</p>
<p>&#8220;The properties he seeks to protect belong to Gambians and Gambia, and he must not be allowed to take them with him. He must leave our country without conditionality&#8217;s.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>An online petition called for Mr Jammeh to be arrested instead of being granted asylum.</p>
<p>Mr Barrow said: <i>&#8220;We aren&#8217;t talking about prosecution here, we are talking about getting a truth and reconciliation commission.</p>
<p>&#8220;Before you can act, you have to get the truth, to get the facts together.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Jammeh, who first seized power in a 1994 coup, has been holed up this week in his official residence in Banjul, increasingly isolated as he was abandoned by his security forces and several Cabinet members.</p>
<p>The West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, pledged to remove Mr Jammeh by force if he did not step down.</p>
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