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Gambia rejoins Commonwealth as it seeks to rebuild world standing

Gambia has rejoined the Commonwealth, the tiny West African former British colony’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, five years after its now exiled former authoritarian leader withdrew his country, calling it a “neo-colonial institution”. During his 23-year rule, Yahya Jammeh, who fled Gambia a year ago after regional militaries launched an operation to remove him, repeatedly clashed with British authorities over criticisms of his government’s human rights record. He withdrew […]

9 February 2018

International News

Gambia’s President Barrow to return home on Thursday

Gambia's President Adama Barrow, who was inaugurated in neighboring Senegal as mediators engineered an exit deal for longstanding ruler Yahya Jammeh, is to return to Gambia on Thursday, a senior aide said. Barrow has asked a regional force of several thousand soldiers to stay and help him restore democratic governance after they entered Gambia last week to enforce election results that brought an end to Jammeh's 22 years in power. […]

26 January 2017

Opinions

Gambia: A lesson for African dictators

OPINION by Solomon Dersso Soon after the peaceful transition of power from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in the US, Gambia's crisis was also resolved without a single gunshot. The embattled President Yahya Jammeh appeared on national TV announcing his decision "to relinquish the mantle of leadership". Jammeh's decision to step down was not only important to his own people, as he effectively decided not to push the country into […]

23 January 2017

International News

The Gambia: Ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh ‘plundered coffers’

The Gambia's ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh plundered the state coffers in his final weeks in power, stealing millions of dollars and shipping out luxury vehicles by cargo plane, according to an aide to new president Adama Barrow. Jammeh, who ruled the small West African country for 22 years, flew into exile late on Saturday to Equatorial Guinea. He had refused to concede defeat in a December 1 election but eventually relinquished […]

23 January 2017

International News

Adama Barrow sworn in as Gambia’s president in Senegal

Troops from a bloc of West African countries have entered Gambia in support of Adama Barrow, shortly after the new Gambian president called for international backing following his inauguration in neighbouring Senegal. Longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh, who came to power in a 1994 coup, has refused to step down despite losing a disputed December 1 presidential election to Barrow, deepening a political crisis. In a statement, Senegal's army said on […]

20 January 2017

International News

Gambians, tourists flee on eve of leader expected to surrender power

Gambians and tourists were boarding buses, packing suitcases onto trucks and hiring canoes to flee the capital on Wednesday, as President Yahya Jammeh clung to power on the eve of his rival Adama Barrow's planned swearing in. Jammeh, a former soldier who once vowed to rule for "a billion years", is refusing to step down, despite condemnation from regional leaders and even the threat of an imminent invasion by West […]

18 January 2017

International News

Gambia: Yahya Jammeh’s election challenge postponed

The Supreme Court of Gambia cannot rule on President Yahya Jammeh's challenge against his electoral defeat until May, according to its chief justice. The ruling casts further doubt on whether a peaceful political transition will happen next week as scheduled. The West African country has been thrust into a political crisis following a December 1 presidential vote, which saw longtime ruler Jammeh losing to opposition leader Adama Barrow. Jammeh initially conceded defeat but later reversed his […]

11 January 2017

Yahya Jammeh

Gambia rejoins Commonwealth as it seeks to rebuild world standing

Gambia’s President Barrow to return home on Thursday

Gambia: A lesson for African dictators

The Gambia: Ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh ‘plundered coffers’

Adama Barrow sworn in as Gambia’s president in Senegal

Gambians, tourists flee on eve of leader expected to surrender power

Gambia: Yahya Jammeh’s election challenge postponed

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