Vol 50 No 14 | GAMBIA No free speech here 10th July 2009 By gaoling opposition journalists, President Yahya Jammeh makes himself look insecure. The President, who seized power as a mere lieutenant fifteen years ago, now entitles himself President Sheikh...
Vol 55 No 19 | SOUTH AFRICARUSSIA Nuclear secrets 25th September 2014 A US$50 billion agreement with Russia to build up to eight nuclear reactors has raised the alarm in South Africa about the speed and secrecy with which the...
Vol 41 No 25 | GAMBIA Under-confident 22nd December 2000 Are relations improving between Gambia and the Commonwealth? In 1995, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) was set up to look at members' attitudes to democracy.
Vol 57 No 25 | GAMBIA Gambia at the cliff-edge 16th December 2016 Jammeh made history twice: first by conceding defeat and then by changing his mind. Presidents are trying to talk him down It would take a mere seven days for President Yahya Jammeh to pronounce the unthinkable and request the impossible. On 2 December, he appeared on television to tell...
Vol 46 No 3 | GAMBIA Jammeh rejection 4th February 2005 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...