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Gambia's president, Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh, attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit in 2009.

The Gambia is the worst dictatorship you’ve probably never heard of

January 6, 2015Justice

If you’ve never heard of The Gambia or its longtime dictator, Yahya Jammeh, you’re far from alone. But Jammeh, who survived his eighth coup attempt last week, is the head of a “horrible, horrible dictatorship” that represses its people along North Korean lines.

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