announcement comes a day after Sheriff Bojang, the communications minister, stepped down and fled the country.

Will of the people

Bojang said he resigned because Jammeh's refusal to accept the outcome of the election was disregarding the will of the people.

Dwyer, of the Centre of African Studies, said defections by officials, such as Bojang, indicated that Jammeh was "becoming increasingly isolated" amid mounting pressure.

"Nearly all prominent organisations in the Gambia and the UN, AU, ECOWAS, US and more are unlikely to back down on their calls for Jammeh to concede defeat," she told Al Jazeera.

Additional reporting by Teo Kermeliotis: @Teo_KermeliotisOne of the fun things about teaching history is not only helping young people discover new ideas, but also having them help you, the instructor, re-discover some of those ideas. One of the things we did as a class this semester was revisit some of the music of the early 1960s up to 1980 that had socially conscious and/or protest lyrics. Many of the songs on the following list were songs that I personally remembered and contributed. Yet, many of the songs were discovered by several of my students, along with a few suggestions by a few friends. My students and I had a good laugh about how some people upload music to YouTube in violation of copyright law. Yet, we all agreed that when one video or