Vol 62 No 4 | GAMBIAGUINEA BISSAUSENEGAL Sall roots out rebels 18th February 2021 Senegal's media eagerly showed footage of soldiers walking through rebel camps which the Senegalese army overran in the first week of February. Deserted kitchens, mostly old weapon...
Vol 60 No 10 | GAMBIASENEGAL Pushing out the privateers 17th May 2019 Oil majors are returning to the Senegal basin, and long-time local dealmakers like Frank Timis are gradually being eased out BP has cemented its interest in the Senegal basin by sweeping up two disputed oil blocks off the coast of Gambia previously held by Norway-listed Africa Petroleum as a raft of incr...
Vol 59 No 6 | GAMBIA Deep sea intrigue 23rd March 2018 International interest in offshore oil deposits has thrown the spotlight on Gambia's ongoing squabble with African Petroleum African Petroleum, the Norwegian-listed oil company founded by controversial resources magnate Vasile 'Frank' Timis, has lodged three separate court cases against the Gambian gover...
Vol 58 No 16 | GAMBIA No licence to drill 4th August 2017 African Petroleum Corporation Limited, founded by Vasile 'Frank' Timis, risks losing its foothold in Gambia's growing oil and gas sector after failing to renew the exploration lice...
Vol 58 No 3 | GAMBIA Jammeh's long goodbye 3rd February 2017 Jubilation at the departure of ex-President Yahya Jammeh was stained with suspicion and anger as the story spread that he had been granted immunity from prosecution and had plunder...
Vol 58 No 1 | GAMBIA Jammeh feels the heat 19th December 2016 As Yahya Jammeh shows no sign of stepping down regional leaders are determined to see him go. There is talk of military intervention The Gambia is edging closer to high noon as the presidential handover date of 19 January looms. Yahya Jammeh has until then to step down, and there are no signs that he will comply...
Vol 57 No 25 | GAMBIA Gambia at the cliff-edge 16th December 2016 Jammeh made history twice: first by conceding defeat and then by changing his mind. Presidents are trying to talk him down It would take a mere seven days for President Yahya Jammeh to pronounce the unthinkable and request the impossible. On 2 December, he appeared on television to tell a surprised wor...
Vol 57 No 20 | GAMBIA Jammeh tilts the playing field 7th October 2016 An increasingly isolated and paranoid President has become even more dictatorial in the lead-up to national elections The last time Gambia went to the polls, in November 2011, the incumbent President Yahya Jammeh won 72% of the vote, crushing two below-par opposition coalitions. The Commonwealth a...
Vol 56 No 8 | GAMBIA Coup plotters sentenced 17th April 2015 A five-member court martial headed by High Court Judge Emmanuel A. Amadi, a Nigerian, on 30 March sentenced six Gambian soldiers convicted of the 31 December attempted coup. All we...
Vol 56 No 7 | GAMBIA Jammeh cracks the whip 3rd April 2015 The consequences of the failed coup are proving dire for peaceful dissent as a wave of secret detentions takes place The repercussions of December's failed coup against President Yahya Jammeh are still being felt in Gambia and in the United States. One of the most prominent democracy campaigners,...
