Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council

Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council ( AFPRC ) is the name of the military junta and the transitional government, which had taken on 22 July 1994 in a bloodless coup, the state power in the West African nation of Gambia.

The four young army officers of the Gambia National Army led by the 29 -year-old Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh. They rushed the Dawda Jawara government with the excuse to stop her alleged extensive corruption and undemocratic government. A fifth officer, Lieutenant Yankuba Touray, was joined by shortly after the coup to the group and also took on a ministerial post.

After an announcement in October 1994 of the proclaimed state of emergency should be kept to 1998 originally, but it was carried out in 1996 presidential elections that Jammeh and his newly founded party Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC ) emerged victorious went and government affairs as president of Gambia was continuing.

The members

• Yahya Jammeh, Chairman ( Chairman )
• Sana B. Sabally, Vice Chairman ( Vice Chairman )
• Sadibou Hydara, Interior Minister (Minister of the Interior )
• Edward Singhateh, Defense Minister (Minister of Defence )

Added later encountered:

• Yankuba Touray, Minister for local government (Minister for Local Government)