‘Crown me king’
/ 12 November 2010

‘Crown me king’

Not content with his current titles — His Excellency, the President, Sheik, professor, Alhaji, Doctor — Yahya Jammeh wants to be crowned King.

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/ 28 June 2006

Cash-strapped AU peacekeepers to quit Darfur

The poorly equipped African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur is set to quit the troubled western Sudanese region by end of September due to a lack of funds, the AU’s security organ said on Tuesday. ”Whatever happens, our mandate ends on September 31 unless there are new developments,” South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said.

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/ 14 February 2005

Gambian police chief arrested

The inspector general of Gambia’s police force was on Sunday in jail along with the West African state’s former top immigration official, police sources said. Police chief Landing Badjie and Tamsir Jasseh were arrested on Saturday by National Intelligence Agency officers and taken to the capital’s central prison.