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Gambia
Population: 1.7mn.
GDP: 1.0bn.
Debt: 0.2bn.
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After bludgeoning his way to another presidential election victory without any serious sanction from the Commonwealth or USA, Yahya Jammeh will also prevail in March's parliamentary elections. His sponsorship of insurgents and links to crime syndicates underline regional unease. 

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  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

‘No monster’ Jammeh heads for victory

The President can rely on foreign friends and weak opponents to stay in power

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

Iranian guns and a king in Banjul

As he plans to install himself as monarch, President Jammeh has cut ties with Tehran over a mysterious arms shipment

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Coups and cocaine

The enforced celebration of 'Freedom Day' on 22 July, the 16th anniversary of President Yahya Jammeh's coup, prompted protests by exiles and human rights groups, who say the regime is increasingly repressive and that Banjul has become a regional centre fo...

  • Vol 50 No 22
  •  6th November 2009

Jammeh says what he thinks

The President's threats against human rights activists should spoil his welcome at the Commonwealth summit and elsewhere

  • Vol 50 No 15
  •  24th July 2009

Fifteen years of one-man rule

Few outsiders are prepared to support the doughty opponents of Yahya Jammeh's corrupt and brutal regime

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

No free speech here

By gaoling opposition journalists, President Yahya Jammeh makes himself look insecure. The President, who seized power as a mere lieutenant fifteen years ago, now entitles himself President Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh, according to the Sta...

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

Yom Ashura

Forgiveness and tolerance are key to Gambia and Senegal's celebration of the Islamic holy day of Yom Ashura (the tenth day of the Islamic New Year), this year on 8 January. In contrast with the self-flagellation of Middle Eastern Shiite Muslims in remembr...

  • Vol 48 No 5
  •  2nd March 2007

Bad medicine

President Yahya Jammeh is unhappy when foreign journalists betray scepticism about his proclaImed cure for AIDS. Since he cannot reach into the studios of Sky Television, he turned his fury on United Nations representative Fadzai Gwaradzima who, having la...

  • Vol 47 No 25
  •  15th December 2006

Crossing the river

Since March, fighting has raged between rebels and troops in Senegal's southern Casamance province, driving more than 10,000 refugees across the border. Rebel fighters crossed too: their leader, Salif Sadio, slipped over to evade capture by Guinea Bissau ...

  • Vol 47 No 20
  •  6th October 2006

Jammeh tomorrow

The President's boast that he will hold power for the next 40 years no longer looks so idle

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