BANJUL: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has sacked the foreign minister, the presidency announced, the sixth cabinet member removed in three months.
Susan Waffa-Ogoo was "fired from her post with immediate effect," the presidency said in a short statement released late Wednesday, without giving a reason.
Jammeh regularly reshuffles his cabinet in what many observers say is a sign of insecurity and runs several key ministries himself, including defence, forestry and religious affairs.
Earlier in August, he fired five cabinet members including ministers of transport, energy and education.
Jammeh, who has ruled mainland Africa's smallest country with an aura of mysticism and an iron fist since seizing power in 1994, vowed ahead of his swearing-in for a fourth term last year to eradicate corruption.
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