Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh

On good terms with both President Abdoulaye Wade and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who has just organised his own re-election Sylla helped Conté's old friend João Bernardo 'Nino' Vieira with his successful election bid in Guinea Bissau...

Dakar wants to know where Sadio is ­ and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh will not say...

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 polls and his threats to independent judges...

After spending US$22 million on the African Union (AU) summit last month President Yahya Jammeh has called a snap election on 22 September...

Much of the problem lay with its lightweight host President Yahya Jammeh whose lack of knowledge about the substantive issues in Sudan and Somalia was matched by AU Chairman Denis Sassou Nguesso's unwillingness to take initiatives...

For host President Yahya Jammeh the Banjul summit was the most successful African Union meeting ever...

The charge sheet against Gambian President Yahya Jammeh includes oppression and grand corruption but cannot match that of Sudan's Islamist regime which entertained its guests in January while conducting mass murder and ethnic cleansing...

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 cover of darkness amid heavy security...

Sassou-Nguesso and Colonel Yahya Jammeh due to host the next summit in Banjul in June) took power through coups d'état...

GAMBIA: In October President Yahya Jammeh will stand for a third term in office and is expected to rig his way back to power...