Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh

Jubilation at the departure of ex-President Yahya Jammeh was stained with suspicion and anger as the story spread that he had been granted immunity from prosecution and had plundered the exchequer (AC Vol 58 No 1 Jammeh feels the heat)...

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ends her term of office having disappointed many member states although she was congratulated for supporting the Economic Community of West African States' intervention in The Gambia which ushered Yahya Jammeh from power after he lost elections in December but refused to stand down...

However the AU's support of the intervention that forced Yahya Jammeh out of the Gambian presidency has allowed Dlamini-Zuma to leave on a high note...

Yahya Jammeh has until then to step down and there are no signs that he will comply...

In a poignant moment at the Electoral Commission headquarters in Accra some minutes before Chairwoman Osei's announcement of the presidential results journalists heard that Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh had changed his mind about accepting defeat in the previous week's elections...

It would take a mere seven days for President Yahya Jammeh to pronounce the unthinkable and request the impossible...

Like comedian Groucho Marx who once declared that he wouldn't want to join any club that would have him as a member Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza South Africa's Jacob Zuma and Gambia's Yahya Jammeh all want to pull their countries out of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...

The last time Gambia went to the polls in November 2011 the incumbent President Yahya Jammeh won 72% of the vote crushing two below-par opposition coalitions (AC Vol 52 No 23 ‘No monster' Jammeh heads for victory)...

As if the internal opposition to reform were not enough Vaz is finding support from President Macky Sall of Senegal and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh...

Less room for Jammeh Early in his term Sall made noises about President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia being indispensable to the search for a solution overlooking Dakar's longstanding accusations that Jammeh has funded favourite wings of the MFDC and at least tolerated a lucrative illegal cross-border economy...

The repercussions of December's failed coup against President Yahya Jammeh are still being felt in Gambia and in the United States...