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The Gambia's ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh plundered the state coffers in his final weeks in power, stealing millions of dollars and shipping out luxury vehicles by cargo plane, according to an aide to new president Adama Barrow.
Jammeh, who ruled the small West African country for 22 years, flew into exile late on Saturday [Jan 21] to Equatorial Guinea.
He had refused to concede defeat in a December 1 election but eventually relinquished power after a delegation of West African leaders convinced him to step down, even as troops from neighbouring countries entered The Gambia.
[...] But amid growing controversy over the assurances offered to Jammeh to guarantee his departure, Barrow adviser Mai Fatty said the new administration had discovered that millions of dollars had recently been stolen.
[...] "Over two weeks, over 500m dalasi ($11 million) were withdrawn" by Jammeh, he said. "As we take over, the government of The Gambia is in financial distress."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @04:17AM
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Understood. Still don't get why this made the front page. It's a nothing story. It screams there aren't enough submissions. Understood.
Not all stories need to be revolutionary, a "nothing story" is great if it's interesting enough. I thought this one was interesting enough, especially with the Nigerian-prince-scam parallel that immediately popped into my mind when I read it. You may disagree, but please consider that there are people here that don't have all the exact same interests as you, so not all stories are going to be "for" you :)
Read google news, yahoo news, BBC news, and you'd have heard about this last week. I get the lack of submissions, but don't let that devalue the submissions you accept.
I don't read any of those, this is the first time I've heard of this story. Sadly, my main news sources are SN and Techdirt. I read BBC before, but then the site redesign made it unusable on my browser, so I ditched it.
Not to mention, SN is a news aggregator site. By definition, the stories you get here are from somewhere else. Aggregated, so to speak.
One last point, to repeat an often-raised rebuttal, SN is mainly a discussion site, and almost every story is a week or so behind the curve. That's the whole point. Read it elsewhere, digest it for a few days, and then comment on it here, if you want. You're arguing against the entire philosophy behind the site... at least as I understand it.