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Gambia

Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh

Date of Birth: 25/05/1965
Place of Birth: Kanilai, Gambia


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Fifteen years of one-man rule

Since Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh led a succesful coup just 15 years ago on 22 July 1994 he has managed his small country against strong domestic complaints but without much interference from the neighbours...


No free speech here

By gaoling opposition journalists President Yahya Jammeh makes himself look insecure...


Mutually assured destruction

His host President Yahya Jammeh whose regime has profitable links with the region’s drug trafficking and arms trading networks has long meddled in the politics of Guinea Bissau and Senegal’s Casamance Region...


Yom Ashura

In both Senegal and Gambia there has also been a rash of 'kill the batty-man' (pejorative Caribbean slang for homosexual) lyrics among local wannabe reggae artists their homophobia echoing not only their Jamaican idols but also Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh...


Before and after the voting

The erratic dictatorial regime of President Yahya Jammeh (AC Vol 48 No 5) is midway between elections which generates a politicallull and the opposition is feeble...


Kingmakers and charlatans

GAMBIA: President Yahya Jammeh is at his worst when newly elected so another disturbing year may lie ahead...


Secretarial duties

The African absentees were President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia (domestic considerations perhaps also embarrassment about his row with Ghana over 48 dead fishermen or even his blatant persecution of the media) and Zambia's Levy Mwanawasa who is reportedly unwell...


Bad medicine

President Yahya Jammeh is unhappy when foreign journalists betray scepticism about his proclaImed cure for AIDS...


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