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...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Opposition to Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh is becoming more outspoken as economic stagnation deepens not helped by the problems of Casamance and Guinea Bissau and the opposition says tax rises in the 2003 budget aim to drive out foreign workers...
Vol 43 No 14 |
- AFRICAN UNION
The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...
As yet there is no sign of a Casamance dividend from Wade's improving relations with Gambian President Yahya Jammeh...
Almost no one expects a free vote on 18 October when President Doctor Alhaji Yahya Jammeh (Colonel Retired) is up for re-election (AC Vol 42 No 6)...
The five presidential candidates are: Yahya Jammeh for the party he set up for the 1996-97 elections the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC)...
His reservations notwithstanding Wade will certainly need the support promised by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh (a traditional friend of the MFDC) and by Guinea Bissau's President Kumba Yale...
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...