Yahya Jammeh News

The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has reiterated his unrelenting commitment towards ensuring that corruption and mismanagement of public properties does not exist in the government machinery.

High-level talks HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani receiving Gambian Foreign Minister Osman Jammeh yesterday.

Strong words came over the podium during the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations from Gambian President El-Hajj Yahya Jammeh , who called for equity, respect and a greater role for Africa within the world body.

The pace of development in The Gambia is moving steadily in the right direction under the dynamic and visionary leadership of President Jammeh.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

Yahya Jammeh, the megalomaniac in charge of The Gambia, has reportedly threatened to execute practicing gays who are HIV positive.

Gambian army chief General Lang Tombong Tamba has been sacked, Gambian state television announced Friday, with military sources saying he had been suspected of corruption.

The Gambia is one of Africa's smallest countries and unlike many of its West African neighbours it has enjoyed long spells of stability since independence.

The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has said that it is high time that The Gambia became a net exporter, observing the fact that the country has been a net importer for a very long time.

I will kill anyone who wants to destabilise this country. If you think that you can collaborate with so-called human rights defenders and get away with it, you must be living in a dream world.

President Yahya Jammeh has warned human rights workers he will kill them. It's up to the rest of Africa to get tough with him Yahya Jammeh, president of the Gambia, seems determined to drag one of Africa's smallest countries into the kind of instability that other west African countries have struggled to escape.

The Daily Observer Gambia : Bank of the South - a Welcome Development Daily Observer 30 September 2009 editorial The revelation by President Jammeh that the second Africa-South America Summit has led to the signing of a very important agreement - the establishment of a Bank of the South - is indeed a welcome development.

West African journalists have condemned proposal by The Gambian government to amend the jurisdiction of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice.

The Accra-based Media Foundation for West Africa has strongly condemned Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's recent threats against human rights activists, calling it a "bluf f" which should be condemned by the international community.

Welcome to The Gambia, the land of "His Excellency President Professor Alhaji Dr AJJ Jammeh", a sign at airport tells visitors to the West African nation.

The Gambian president's reported threat to kill anyone who wants to destabilize the country, was deplorable, Amnesty International has said.

Activists have launched a campaign to have the headquarters of a top African human rights body moved from the Gambia after the country's president reportedly threatened to kill human rights defenders.

An online petition has been launched in protest at the Gambian president's threat to kill human rights workers.

Zuma plans to close gap between rich, poor -220909 S OUTH Africa must do more to close the gap between rich and poor, according to President Jacob Zuma at a congress of union allies who want him to take tougher action against unemployment and poverty.

Gambian opposition parties have rejected President Yahya Jammeh's pronouncement to kill people deemed enemies of the state.