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Supporters of incumbent President of Gambia Adama Barrow celebrate in a car. Gambians were waiting to find out the winner of the first presidential election in the tiny West African nation since former dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile, with incumbent Adama Barrow enjoying the advantage in partial results. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP)
BANJUL

Gambian leader’s new term darkened by politics, economy

Adama Barrow was re-elected on the strength of his pitch as the candidate of continuity, but faces mounting pressure for action, both from home and abroad

  • Laurent Lozano
2 min read
Guinea’s president Alpha Conde surrounded by soldiers.
ALPHA CONDE

Photos capture Africa’s mighty as they fall

Alpha Condé is not the first president to have his humiliation captured on camera.

  • Simon Allison
  • The Continent
2 min read
Gambian President Adama Barrow. (Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)
ADAMA BARROW

Gambians get behind a movement to Barrow to his word

The constitution puts him on fairly firm ground but citizens of post-dictatorship Gambia are determined to hold their leader to account

  • Staff Reporter
  • Benita Van Eyssen
6 min read
Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh. (Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)
COMMENT AUTHOR

Yes, victims can bring Gambia’s dictator to justice

Gambian President Adama Barrow has said that he will await the report of the country’s truth commission before pursuing Jammeh’s possible extradition

  • Reed Brody
  • Comment Author
4 min read
Jammeh is currently in exile in Equatorial Guinea. There is no extradition treaty between the Gambia and Equatorial Guinea. (Picture-Alliance/AP/J. Delay)
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Video

Despite mounting abuse claims, here’s why Jammeh is unlikely to face justice soon

At least in the short term, it looks unlikely that Jammeh will face either his victims or consequences for human rights abuses

  • Sophie Gallop 1
5 min read
BIRGIT SCHWARZ

Q&A: How Jammeh rape allegations were uncovered

Researcher Marion Volkmann-Brandau on what it took to directly link Gambia’s former dictator to rape and sexual explitation

  • Birgit Schwarz
10 min read
Three women have accused Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, of rape and sexual assault while he was in office. (Getty Images)
GAMBIA
Video

Former Gambian dictator Jammeh was a ‘serial sexual predator’

Former president Yahya Jammeh allegedly used his position to rape and sexually assault young women, claims new report

  • Simon Allison
4 min read
Costly rule: The former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh used a network of fixers and the Belgian bank KBC to siphon millions of dollars out of his country. (Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
GAMBIA

Bank at heart of Gambian tyranny

An investigation reveals that a key Belgian institution is again involved in money-laundering

  • Mark Anderson
  • Khadija Sharife
6 min read
A truth commission in Gambia has begun investigating alleged rights abuses committed during the 22-year regime of Yahya Jammeh. (Getty)
GAMBIA

Gambia truth commission starts to address Jammeh-era rights abuses

A truth and reconciliation commission has begun to investigate alleged rights abuses during the 22-year-long rule of Yahya Jammeh

  • Deutsche Welle 1
2 min read
Jammeh came to power in a military coup in 1994, installing a structure of oppression and corruption that touched nearly every part of Gambian society. (Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters)
ADAMA BARROW

Gambia launches probe into ex-dictator’s abuse

The commission will hold witness hearings into Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year era of oppression, opening the way to prosecuting those responsible

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
The Gambian court case is the first to hold an African head of state accountable for violating the rights of people living with HIV.
ADAMA BARROW

The Gambia after Yahya Jammeh: Reconciliation no easy task

Gambian President Adama Barrow might have managed to succeed the longtime leader, but the West African nation remains divided along ethnic lines

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
The Gambian court case is the first to hold an African head of state accountable for violating the rights of people living with HIV.
AIDS
Audio

‘No sex, no coffee, no ARVs’: Former president’s quackery could land him in court

Former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh will be the first African head of state to be tried for violating the rights of HIV-positive people.

  • Adri Kotze
8 min read
Mugabe’s exit does not in itself guarantee reform or positive change in Zimbabwe. But it does send the strongest possible message to those who would follow in his footsteps.
ADAMA BARROW

​Africa for optimists: 2017 in review

Not feeling so hopeful? Click here for the other side of the coin in our ‘Africa for pessimists: 2017 in review’.

  • Simon Allison
5 min read
Mail & Gaurdian
ECOWAS

Editorial: Shout a bit louder, SADC

‘Instead of safeguarding Zimbabwe’s democracy, SADC repeatedly rubber-stamped Mugabe’s regime’

  • Editorial
2 min read
President Adama Barrow faces the immense task of mending the mess he inherited from his predecessor
THE GAMBIA

Cleaning up the tyrant’s mess

After forcing out Jammeh, The Gambia must fix what he broke

  • Simon Allison
7 min read