West Africa Deserves Limited Credit for Toppling a Dictator

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Before Yahya Jammeh finally bowed to the inevitable and left the presidency of the Gambia for exile, he asked the negotiators for certain conditions to be met.

These now seem to have included somehow getting out of the country his fleet of luxury cars and relieving his small country's treasury of around US$11m.

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