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Yahya Jammeh

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

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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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