Online stories about the assassination of Gambia's President-elect - Adama Barrow are fake, The Trumpet can reveal.
The President-elect's social media team tweeted that: "We would like to inform you that the President-elect is alive and well."
As the January 19 Inauguration date for the President-elect draws near, there is tension in the country and fears that current President Yahya Jammeh will go to any length to remain in office.
Adama Barrow
Gambia's President-elect - Adama Barrow
It will be recalled that December 1 elections in the country resulted in Barrow winning 43.3% of the votes cast, beating Jammeh's 39.6%. These figures were revised from earlier results, after the Independent Electoral Commission discovered a tallying error affecting all candidates. The revised results did not alter the outcome of the election with Barrow as winner.
Jammeh had initially conceded defeat, but when the tallying errors came to light, he declared that he would no longer accept the result - believing that it was an attempt to rig him out of office. He has launched a court suit to annul the result.
His security agencies subsequently seized control of the Independent Electoral Commission's headquarters while its Head has fled the country over fears for his security.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has threatened to take military action if Jammeh refuses to leave office on 19 January.
Jammeh has responded, stating that any such intervention would constitute an act of war, and that he was ready to defend the country's sovereignty.
Army Chief - Gen Ousman Badjie, whom the Barrow side had earlier claimed had pledged the support of the army for the change of guards; in a letter to the pro-government newspaper - The Observer, pledged "unflinching loyalty and support of the Gambia Armed Forces" to Jammeh.