African Studies
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives
Call for Papers: Utafiti is inviting you to submit your manuscript – any topic in the humanities - for consideration in the next issues.
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On 24 November, Yaya Jammeh, president since 1996, was re-elected for another five-year term, having received 72% of the votes. This happened in the midst of growing international concern over Jammeh’s involvement in arms and drug-trafficking and over the country’s poor human rights record. Throughout the year, Gambian on-line media based abroad spread rumours about Jammeh’s divorce from his second wife, his assumed pancreatic cancer, and his connections with the arms dealer Victor Bout, but without in any way undermining his firm grip on the country. Relations with Senegal were tense during the first part of 2011, following an arms scandal with Iran in the latter part of 2010. Drought led to dramatic crop failure and the increased economic vulnerability of large sections of the population.