Posted on 04/21/2016 7:15:45 PM PDT by MtnClimber
GGambia is facing its biggest protest movement in years. It will either be a breakthrough or a bloodbath.
Since taking power in a bloodless coup in 1994, Yahya Jammeh has presided over the worst dictatorship you’ve never heard of. The eccentric Gambian president, who performs ritual exorcisms and claims to heal everything from AIDS to infertility with herbal remedies, rules his tiny West African nation through a mix of superstition and fear. State-sanctioned torture, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary executions — these are just a few of the favored tactics employed by his notorious security and intelligence services.
Elsewhere in Africa, rights advocates have increasingly lamented a plague of “third-termism” as more and more leaders move to scrap constitutional limits in order to remain in power. But in Gambia, Jammeh will probably cruise to a fifth five-year term in elections scheduled for December. That is, of course, unless the unprecedented wave of protests that began last week boil over into a full-fledged popular revolt.
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Bet 0bama loves this dictatorship.
God bless ya man, that “s all I got
Only if Yahya Jammeh has imposed sharia.
They recently became the “Islamic Republic of The Gambia”, so yes, Obama loves it.
Maybe he can go over there and help him out.
Well....it’s not like there’s a whole bunch of wonderful countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Virtually every country is a different kind of sh*thole...save S. Africa, and that will be one in about twenty years.
Couldn’t do all that nasty abuse without “common sense gun control” (def. “we got da guns and yu don’t...so you die.”)
Hillary probably has wet dreams, thinking of making America that way.
Ah .... heck. I guess I am now going to have to cancel my vacation plans to Gambia.
Oh interesting. This must be our next war then. It always starts with news articles like this, letting us know what the problem is.
No, I think that they are preparing us for the next wave of "refugees" - you know: Aggressive, heavily-indoctrinated military-age men.
Regards,
Islamic imperialism and Communist imperialism are celebrated by the left, western “colonialism” or “imperialism” are hated.
Inspirational pilot project; the problem is scaling up. /S
Sounds like a Democrat wet dream!
Sounds like a Democrat wet dream!
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