The Gambia’s Vice President Badara Joof has died after a brief illness in India.
President Adama Barrow announced this on his official Twitter account on Wednesday.
Joof, was appointed vice president of the West African country in 2022, he served as education minister from 2017 to 2022.
The vice president had left The Gambia about three weeks ago to seek medical treatment and had not been seen in public for months before the trip.