Campaigning for Gambia's March 29 parliamentary elections began on Wednesday, with President Yahya Jammeh's party facing no opposition for more than half of the seats. Mr. Jammeh's Alliance for Patriotic Re-Orientation and Construction will field candidates for all 48 seats, according to statement from the Independent Electoral Commission that was...
President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia secured a new five-year term on Friday after the election commission declared him the winner in a vote that regional leaders said was marked by the intimidation of voters and the opposition. Mr. Jammeh, the former leader of a coup in 1994, took 72 percent of the vote, according to the Independent Electoral...

This tiny West African nation's citizens have grown familiar with the unpredictable exploits of its absolute ruler, who insists on being called His Excellency President Professor Dr. Al-Haji Yahya Jammeh: his herbs-and-banana cure for AIDS, his threat to behead gays, his mandate that only he can drive through the giant arch commemorating his coup...
Gambia er en republik i Vestafrika. Landet er med 10.380 kvadratkilometer det mindste i Afrika, og det har cirka 1,6 millioner indbyggere. Gambia er geografisk næsten helt omkranset af landet Senegal. Landets hovedstad hedder Banjul og havde i 2003 34.828 indbyggere. Det lave indbyggertal i hovedstaden skyldes, at denne er beliggende på en ganske lille ø, der dog er forbundet med fastlandet via broer. På fastlandet nær hovedstaden bor der flere hundrede tusinde.
Gambia var en britisk koloni indtil 1965, da landet blev selvstændigt.