Vanguard cut its teeth supporting Adama Barrow's presidential campaign in Gambia in 2017 which saw off long-time military leader Yahya Jammeh...
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)...
Buzaianu also had a deal with the deposed Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh under which his Westwood Gambia Ltd...
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...
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...
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)...
Vol 60 No 10 |
- GAMBIA
- SENEGAL
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...
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)...
Vol 58 No 25 |
- SECESSIONISM
Although the leader of the MFDC Salif Sadio declared a unilateral ceasefire in 2014 after talks with Macky Sall's government at the Vatican the rebels continue to operate and in 2017 defied the Economic Community of West African States' intervention in Gambia by siding with forces loyal to the then President Yahya Jammeh...
Barrow's government is uneasy we hear about the relationship between Timis and ex-President Yahya Jammeh who oversaw the allocation of licences...