Accusations of gross humans rights abuses and corrupt deals with the late Nigerian military leader General Sani Abacha barely worry President Yahya Jammeh...
In early February National Intelligence Agency agents arrested the Inspector General of Police Landing Badjie on orders of President Yahya Jammeh whose office accused Badjie of putting himself in 'compromising situations with individuals under investigation for endangering the security and health of the people'...
West African diplomats were very relieved that Niger's President Mamadou Tandja beat Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh to win the chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at its summit in Accra Ghana on 18-19 January...
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Peace in Casamance may also reduce the influence of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh who is under scrutiny following the December murder of respected independent journalist Deyda Hydara...
Despite the official involvement of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh in peace negotiations there are suspicions of covert support partly because of Diola solidarity...
The International Monetary Fund is unconvinced by President Yahya Jammeh's anti-corruption campaign and the trial of five central bank officials on foreign exchange offences (AC Vol 45 No 5)...
Gambians in search of hope after a decade of impoverishment and repression under President Yahya Jammeh's regime might have had their spirits momentarily lifted after he announced the discovery of 'large amounts of oil' last month...
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Gambia's eccentric putschist President Yahya Jammeh faces a new crisis after the arrest of close advisor Baba Jobe (listed by the UN as a dealer on conflict diamonds)...
In recent years President Yahya Jammeh has quietly established himself as one of former Liberian President Charles Taylor's best allies in West Africa...
His past African experience has not been extensive though on a trip to Gambia in 1990 his security was assured by a young army officer named Yahya Jammeh who became President in a 1994 coup...
