Yahya Jammeh’s government

Vice President of Gambia Resigns

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Gambia’s Vice President has joined eight cabinet ministers to resign in the face of the political impasse in the country incited by the refusal of President Yahya Jammeh’s to step down. Vice President Isatou Njie-Saidy resigned on Wednesday, same day as Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science, Technology & Religious Affairs, Abubacar Senghore, who is … Read more

Exiled Gambians Ponder Return To Troubled Homeland

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Musa Saidykhan still feels the ache in the scars knotting across his back when the temperature drops every winter in his two-storey home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The father of four, then the editor of the widely read Independent newspaper, fled The Gambia in 2006 after he was tortured by agents of President Yahya Jammeh’s … Read more