President Yahya Jammeh's regime shows how...
Sadio's faction may have been helped by Libyan Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's network probably through Mane and Gambian President Yahya Jammeh who has many connections with his Jola brothers in the MFDC...
The following year President Yahya Jammeh announced a return to civilian rule but the Commonwealth declined to send observers to what looked like a flawed election...
Vol 41 No 24 |
- GUINEA BISSAU
Mane's links had been with the pro-Islamic Lamin Sadio faction of the MFDC also supported by Mane's ally President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia...
New troubles face President Yahya Jammeh following the shooting of 13 student demonstrators in early April (AC Vol 41 No 8)...
As soon as he came to power he visited Bissau's new President Kumba Yalla then went to Gambia to visit President Yahya Jammeh who also fancied himself as a mediator because of his ethnic affinity with the Diola people of lower Casamance...
It could be a turning point for President Yahya Jammeh's regime already battered this year by allegations of corruption...
President Yahya Jammeh's office had hired Chantrils to market 20 000 barrels a day of oil given by General Sani Abacha from August 1996 until he died in June 1998...
Vol 40 No 23 |
- COMMONWEALTH
Interfering in internal affairsPresident Yahya Jammeh resents any Commonwealth intrusion into his Gambian mini-state...
Longer standing coup-makers such as Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Gambia's Yahya Jammeh whose elections and attempts to legitimise their rule haven't won international acceptance are off the hook...