Vol 47 No 12 | GAMBIA AU friends 9th June 2006 The African Union's next host, for July's summit in Banjul, is upsetting those concerned with good governance and human rights. The charge sheet against Gambian President Yahya Jam...
Vol 47 No 7 | GAMBIA The hostile host 31st March 2006 Before he hosts the AU summit, Jammeh wants to shut down the opposition and purge the army After announcing on 22 March that his doughty security agents had foiled yet another coup plot, the tenth in twelve years, President Yahya Jammeh returned to Banjul under cover of ...
Vol 46 No 25 | GAMBIA Teflon Jammeh 16th December 2005 Accusations of gross humans rights abuses and corrupt deals with the late Nigerian military leader, General Sani Abacha, barely worry President Yahya Jammeh. The Commonwealth and o...
Vol 46 No 6 | GAMBIA Cold murder trail 18th March 2005 Efforts to find out who murdered Deyda Hydara, Editor of The Point newspaper, on 16 December become more bizarre by the day. Gambian police arrested Wally Hakim Mahmoud, described ...
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 Stat...
Vol 45 No 6 | GAMBIA Fraud and the Fund 19th March 2004 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
Vol 45 No 5 | GAMBIA Babagate or floodgate 5th March 2004 Jammeh is busy boasting of oil riches and arresting old friends for corruption 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 ...
Vol 44 No 17 | GAMBIA Friends new and old 29th August 2003 Jammeh must keep new friends in D.C. away from old mates in Tripoli and Monrovia In recent years, President Yahya Jammeh has quietly established himself as one of former Liberian President Charles Taylor's best allies in West Africa. Their relationship seemed ...
Vol 42 No 20 | GAMBIA The re-election game 12th October 2001 A fixed vote and foreign indifference will put Jammeh back in power 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). His supporters have stuffed th...
Vol 42 No 6 | GAMBIA Jumping Jammeh 23rd March 2001 Corruption and vote-rigging draw attention to the President's election plans It is easy to break Western precepts of good governance and still haul in international aid. President Yahya Jammeh's regime shows how. In December, the International Monetary Fund...