Editing Yahya Jammeh (section)

=== President of the Republic of the Gambia: 1996 - 2017 ===

Jammeh was re-elected on October 18, 2001 with approximately 53% of the vote, these elections being generally considered free by international observers, except for a few specific events.13 Jammeh expelled a UK diplomat from the country who had attended a meeting of the opposition parties.14 He ran again as his party's candidate in 2006, winning again with 67.3% of the votes, in a 58% participation of the electorate. His main opponent, Ousainou Darboe, accused him of intimidating voters. 

Highly treacherous, I support the insurgents of the [[Muammar al-Gaddafi|Muammar Al-Gaddafi]] 's regime being one of the first African leaders to recognize the Libyan CNT in the libya civil war of 2011. 

His last electoral victory was in 2011. Before the elections, Jammeh had claimed that "Peace and stability should never be endangered on the altar of so-called democracy", 16 and stated that "there is no way in which I may lose, unless all the people in The Gambia have gone crazy, "and stated that repressed journalists represented only 1% of the population, and that they could not speak for.

In February 2012, Jammeh insisted that gay rights cannot be considered human rights; and in April of that same year, he threatened homosexuals who visit his country will make them "regret being born."

Jammeh said the country would respect all religious freedom without restrictions, banned child marriages and female genital mutilation in the country.[[File:The Healer Jammeh.jpg|thumb|alt=|left|The Jammeh's ritual of sanation]]