- Vol 50 No 2
- 23rd January 2009
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
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
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
The President's boast that he will hold power for the next 40 years no longer looks so idle
- Vol 47 No 18
- 8th September 2006
The opposition has dashed its hopes of victory by failing to field a single candidate. The two rival alliances stand almost no chance against President Yahya Jammeh in the national elections on 22 September, given his iron grip on the organisation of the ...
- Vol 47 No 16
- 4th August 2006
After spending US$22 million on the African Union (AU) summit last month, President Yahya Jammeh has called a snap election on 22 September. With only six weeks to register voters, the two main opposition groups - Halifa Sallah's National Alliance for Dem...
- Vol 47 No 12
- 9th June 2006
The African Union's next host, for July's summit in Banjul, is upsetting those concerned with good governance and human rights. The charge sheet against Gambian President Yahya Jammeh includes oppression and grand corruption.
- Vol 47 No 7
- 31st March 2006
Before he hosts the AU summit, Jammeh wants to shut down the opposition
and purge the army
- Vol 46 No 25
- 16th December 2005
Accusations of gross humans rights abuses and corrupt deals with the late Nigerian military leader, General Sani Abacha, barely worry President Yahya Jammeh. The Commonwealth and others have long abandoned efforts to persuade him to democratise; senior fi...
- Vol 46 No 6
- 18th March 2005
Efforts to find out who murdered Deyda Hydara, Editor of The Point newspaper, on 16 December become more bizarre by the day. Gambian police arrested Wally Hakim Mahmoud, described as 'a Gambian national of Lebanese origin', and then released him on bail.