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2017-07-22 Africa Subsaharan

Gambians remember 22 years of dictatorship

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Posted by Fred 2017-07-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Dictators Who Love America - The Atlantic, 6 Feb 2016.

Authoritarian leaders like the Gambia's Yahya Jammeh seem to relish the West's wealth. Why doesn’t the United States use that against them?

Excerpt: The Gambia’s leader encases his rule in a pan-African, anti-Western veneer. But he also portrays himself as a friend of America.
Yet on the other hand, Jammeh portrays himself as a friend of America. After attending the 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., he returned to the Gambia to be greeted by supporters in T-shirts bearing the photograph, taken days earlier, of a beaming Barack Obama shaking his hand.

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-22 07:34|| 2017-07-22 07:34|| Front Page Top

#2 But Besoeker, Obama is anti Western too.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-07-22 13:05|| 2017-07-22 13:05|| Front Page Top

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