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Gambia

Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh

Date of Birth: 25 May 1965
Place of Birth: Kanilai, Gambia


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Ex-dictator threatens a homecoming

After nine years in exile in Equatorial Guinea Yahya Jammeh the dictator who ruled Gambia for 22 years with an iron fist has announced he is returning to his birthplace...

Death squad member in the dock Sanna Manjang a leader of the Junglers a notorious death squad working for Yahya Jammeh has been arrested by Senegalese security forces handed over to the Gambian authorities and charged with murders allegedly committed at Jammeh's behest...


Democracy, deferred

Barrow is serving his second term having come to power in 2017 following the chaotic exit of long-time dictator President Yahya Jammeh (AC Vol 58 No 3 Jammeh's long goodbye)...


Ecowas buckles as it goes for regional unity

It is a far cry from its high point when in January 2017 through diplomacy and the threat of military intervention the bloc forced the Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh to surrender power and go into exile after election defeat (AC Vol 58 No 3 Jammeh's long goodbye)...


Endgame of throne?

Obiang has provided sanctuary for Yahya Jammeh the ousted dictator of Gambia but it is doubted he could do more than that for the Eswatini king...


Doublethink in Ecowas

When Mamadou Tandja tried to prolong his stay in power in Niger in 2009 Ecowas pressed the European Union to impose aid sanctions and when Gambian strongman Yahya Jammeh sought to ignore election defeat in late 2016 the bloc piled on military threat and diplomatic pressure until he departed into exile...


Sall roots out rebels

When former strongman Yahya Jammeh was nudged out of power in Gambia Sadio now widely regarded as an ageing has-been lost his support base there (AC Vol 58 No 3 Jammeh's long goodbye)...


Pushing out the privateers

Neighbouring Gambia has had a chequered relationship with African Petroleum with the disputed offshore blocks A1 and A4 already having been stripped from African Petroleum and its partner Buried Hill Energy in 2014 by former President Yahya Jammeh...


Sall safe for second term

They have nowhere to go since their last protector former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh was ousted after losing the 2016 presidential election (AC Vol 58 No 3 Jammeh's long goodbye)...


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