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Africa: A Turning Point for The Gambia, the Smiling Face of Africa?
The Conversation Africa, 12 January 2017
The Gambia's presidential election crisis has been of particular personal interest for me. Between 2013 and 2014 I lived in the country as a law lecturer at the University of The… Read more »
A Turning Point for The Gambia?
Since President Yahya Jammeh came to power in 1994, human rights violations have become a commonplace tool the regime uses to stay in power, writes Sophie Gallop for The Conversation Africa. She argues that given peaceful transition from dictatorship are rare, December election presents an opportunity that should not be missed.
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The army has denied reports that it was planning to attack Gambia, and remove Yahya Jammeh. Read more »
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Many of the country's captains and generals, who aquired their colourful titles "on the sofa", will run for their lives in the event of any "serious war", ... Read more »
