- published: 04 Jan 2015
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Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh (born 25 May 1965) is the president of the Gambia. As a young army officer, he took power in a 1994 military coup.
He was elected as President in 1996; he was re-elected in 2001, 2006, and 2011.
President Jammeh joined the Gambian National Army in 1984, was commissioned a Lieutenant in 1989, and in 1992 became commander of the Gambian Military Police. He received extensive military training in neighboring Senegal and at United States Army School of the Americas.
On 22 July 1994, a group of young officers in the Gambian National Army seized power from President Sir Dawda Jawara in a military coup by taking control of key facilities in the capital city, Banjul. The coup took place without bloodshed and met with very little resistance. The group identified itself as the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC), with the 29-year-old Jammeh as its chairman.
The AFPRC then suspended the constitution, sealed the borders, and implemented a curfew. While Jammeh's new government justified the coup by decrying corruption and lack of democracy under the Jawara regime, army personnel had also been dissatisfied with their salaries, living conditions, and prospects for promotion.
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Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is now arresting and killing opposition members and protesters ahead of the 2016 Presidential elections.
How the Gambians and her friends missed the shire deception and hijacked by a bunch of criminals of a fine nation of The Gambia.
The Gambian leader created a death squad also documented by UN human rights watch and uses them to kill and suppress Gambians to cling to power.
As Yahya Jammeh insults Mandinkas; he says no elections or coup can remove him from power. He says he is going to continue to rule The Gambia, until the time that he wants to leave office and select the next person to take over.