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e. Yahya Abdul-Aziz James Junkung Jammeh (born 25 May 1965) is a Gambian politician and former military officer, who served as President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017, as well as Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council from 1994 to 1996. Jammeh was born in Kanilai, in the Gambia, and is a Muslim of the Jola ethnic group.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided to intervene militarily in the Gambian constitutional crisis that occurred as a result of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh refusing to step down after losing the December 2016 presidential election, and set 19 January 2017 as the date the troops would move into the Gambia if Jammeh ...
Gambia's former leader, Yahya Jammeh, banned the practice in 2015 in a surprise to activists and with no public explanation. Since the law took effect, enforcement has been weak, with only two ...
ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia. Gambia portal. v. t. e. In the 1994 Gambian coup d'état, a group of soldiers led by 29-year-old Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh seized power in a bloodless coup d'état on the morning of 22 July, ousting Dawda Jawara, who had been President of The Gambia since it became a Republic in 1970. [1]
A German court on Thursday convicted a Gambian man of murder and crimes against humanity for involvement in the killing of government critics in his West African homeland. The killings took place ...
In 2013, President Jammeh removed the commander of his Presidential Guard, Lieutenant Colonel Lamin Sanneh. Sanneh then fled to Washington, D.C. where he met fellow refugee from the Gambia and former officer of the Kentucky National Guard Njaga Jagne. Sanneh, Jagne, and a few others soon conceived a plot to overthrow President Jammeh.
Gambia is an overwhelmingly Muslim country. ... adopted under autocratic ex-president Yahya Jammeh, has faced pushback, particularly since President Adama Barrow came to power in 2017.
Presidential elections were held in The Gambia on 1 December 2016. [1] In a surprise result, opposition candidate Adama Barrow defeated long-term incumbent Yahya Jammeh. [2] [3] The election marked the first change of presidency in The Gambia since a military coup in 1994, and the first transfer of power by popular election since independence ...