Vol 66 No 14 | GAMBIA Oil report blames officials 11th July 2025 A report by Gambia’s lawmakers has blamed three state officials for interfering with a police investigation into the importation and sale of 36,000 tonnes of sanctioned Russian diesel...
Vol 64 No 3 | RUSSIASAHEL Resurrecting the 'Russosphere' 2nd February 2023 The spike in pro-Russian sentiment in the Sahel has been linked to an obscure Belgian activist, Luc Michel. Describing himself as a 'Stalinist', Michel, 65, founded a Belgian...
Vol 47 No 7 | GAMBIA The hostile host 31st March 2006 Before he hosts the AU summit, Jammeh wants to shut down the opposition and purge the army After announcing on 22 March that his doughty security agents had foiled yet another coup plot, the tenth in twelve years, President Yahya Jammeh returned to Banjul under...
Vol 53 No 19 | GAMBIA Jammeh’s execution spree 21st September 2012 What prompted President Yahya Jammeh to start eliminating all the residents of death row in Banjul’s infamous Mile Two Jail? Some attribute it to his heavy dependence on...
Vol 41 No 25 | GAMBIA Under-confident 22nd December 2000 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.