Gambian HIV Patients Recount Herbal Treatment Under Yahya Jammeh
Former president Yahya Jammeh claimed he could cure people suffering from HIV and AIDS. Jammeh treated hundreds of patients in Gambian clinics, administering herbal remedies. Now that he has left power, many are still sick and telling their stories. Please follow and like us:
Police Arrest Yahya Jammeh’s Intelligence Chief, Deputy
The Police have arrested Gambia’s former head of the national intelligence agency and his deputy, part of President Adama Barrow’s attempts to re-establish democracy in the small West African nation, a police spokesperson said Wednesday. Spy chief Yankuba Badjie and director of operations Omar Jeng were detained on Monday and being investigated for potential abuses […]
New Gambian President Adama Barrow Sworn in, For Second Time
Thousands watched as President Adama Barrow’s public swearing in ceremony was held in the city of Bakau. The occasion ends a months-long political crisis after the country’s longtime leader refused to step down. An estimated 25,000 people packed into the city’s Independence Stadium on Saturday along with several regional heads of state for Barrow’s pledge […]
For All Their Power, Africa’s Strongmen Are Powerless to Know When to Go
By now you should know that Africa is one dictator less. Yahya Jammeh, after two decades atop tiny Gambia is no more. The eccentric tyrant is off the swing of power. His desperate but ultimately fruitless attempt to cling on came to naught after Ecowas, the West Africa bloc, threatened to bomb him out. Seeing […]
Ex-President Yahya Jammeh and Two Famous Roman Sayings
The world was on January 20 treated to two different episodes of changing power, one in the US and another in a tinny West African country, the Gambia. Somewhere in a Gambian embassy in Senegal, Adama Barrow, who defeated one of Africa’s strong men in the December election, Yahya Jammeh, was swearing in after leaving […]
After a weeks-long political crisis, Gambian tourism officials are eager to lure foreign visitors
“It seemed like the entire world was coming to an end,” recalls Abdoulie Hydara, director general of The Gambia’s tourism board, bringing to memory the country’s recent protracted political crisis. The Gambia, a tiny, tourism-reliant country in West Africa, typically averages about 4,000 visitors a week during its peak month of January. Yet, last month almost […]
The Day Democracy Won in Gambia
The ActionAid youth network, Activista, has played a key role in getting the former president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, to recognize the democratic election result and resign. On the 20th of January, Jammeh finally left the position to Adama Barrow, who was elected on December the 1st. Even though he was the one deciding […]
Equatorial Guinea confirms hosting ousted Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh
Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Tuesday it was hosting ousted Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who fled his country after West African troops threatened to remove him by force if he did not concede his election defeat. Information Minister Eugenio Nse Obiang confirmed that Jammeh was in the country in a statement sent out to journalists. He […]
Newly Elected Adama Barrow Faces Test As He Returns to the Gambia
The Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow will return to the capital Banjul on Thursday, days after long-standing ruler Yahya Jammeh, who initially disputed the election results, was forced into exile. Barrow had to be inaugurated in neighbouring Senegal as regional powers threw their weight behind the new leader and threatened military intervention if Jammeh refused […]
Gambians Return Home to Breathe ‘Freedom Air’
Gambians who fled the political crisis in the country are returning home following the departure Ex-President Yahya Jammeh and deployment of Senegalese troops. Some 45,000 people fled the country, according to the UN refugee agency, as tensions rose over Jammeh’s refusal to leave office. “We’ve been exile for about six days and we’ve been in […]
