On 24 November 2011, Yahya Jammeh, the leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction (APRC), comfortably won the Gambian presidential election. The Gambia (population 1.8 million) is a narrow slit of a country entirely surrounded by the much

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