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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 47 No 18
  •  8th September 2006

Easy for Jammeh

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

Democratic deficits

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

AU friends

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

The hostile host

Before he hosts the AU summit, Jammeh wants to shut down the opposition and purge the army

  • Vol 46 No 25
  •  16th December 2005

Teflon Jammeh

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

Cold murder trail

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.

  • Vol 46 No 3
  •  4th February 2005

Jammeh rejection

West African diplomats were very relieved that Niger's President Mamadou Tandja beat Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh to win the chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at its summit in Accra, Ghana, on 18-19 January.

  • Vol 45 No 6
  •  19th March 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
  •  5th March 2004

Babagate or floodgate

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

  • Vol 44 No 17
  •  29th August 2003

Friends new and old

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

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