iStock/Thinkstock(DAKAR, Senegal) — Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow says he will return home now that the country’s longtime former leader, Yahya Jammeh, has left the country.

Jammeh had refused to step down for Barrow who won the election and ended the former president’s 22-year reign.

Barrow is in Senegal while West African troops prepare for his inauguration.

The new president appointed Fatoumata Tambajang as the nation’s Vice President on Monday, according to Nigerian News.

Tambajang was a former advisor on women and children’s affairs, earning Gambia’s highest national citizen award by Gambia’s first president, Dawda Kairaba Jawara.  She has also chaired the Gambia National Women’s Council.

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