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Gambia

Population: 1.5 million
GNI: $440 million
Debt: $620 million
Overview: Self-appointed curer of HIV-Aids,  President Yahya Jammeh faces a growing threat from dissident military officers. He will be regionally ostracised after the 'disappearance' of over 400 Ghanaians in Gambia.

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  • Vol 45 No 6
  • 19/03/2004

Fraud and the Fund

The International Monetary Fund is unconvinced by President Yahya Jammeh's anti-corruption campaign and the trial of five central bank officials on foreign exchange offences

  • Vol 45 No 5
  • 05/03/2004

Babagate or floodgate

Jammeh is busy boasting of oil riches and arresting old friends for corruption

  • Vol 44 No 17
  • 29/08/2003

Friends new and old

Jammeh must keep new friends in D.C. away from old mates in Tripoli and Monrovia

  • Vol 42 No 20
  • 12/10/2001

The re-election game

A fixed vote and foreign indifference will put Jammeh back in power

  • Vol 42 No 6
  • 23/03/2001

Jumping Jammeh

Corruption and vote-rigging draw attention to the President's election plans

  • Vol 41 No 25
  • 22/12/2000

Under-confident

Are relations improving between Gambia and the Commonwealth? In 1995, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) was set up to look at members' attitudes to democracy.

  • Vol 41 No 14
  • 07/07/2000

Death on the river

New troubles face President Yahya Jammeh following the shooting of 13 student demonstrators in early April (AC Vol 41 No 8). Opposition leader Oussainou Darboe was arrested on 21 June, with 24 of his followers from the United Democratic Party.

  • Vol 41 No 8
  • 14/04/2000

Students shot

Gambians are shocked by the killing of 14 people, mainly students, when security forces quelled demonstrations in Banjul on 10-11 April. It could be a turning point for President Yahya Jammeh's regime already battered this year by allegations of corruptio...

  • Vol 41 No 2
  • 21/01/2000

Friends of Sani

Who controls account No. J36650-70 at United Overseas Bank, 11 Quai des Bergues, Geneva? That is the issue in Gambia's latest scandal. Details of the private Swiss account emerged when Chantrils SA, a Panamanian subsidiary of Swiss-based oil traders Glenc...

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