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Population
Main article: Population of Africa
Migration
2021: Net outflow over 4 years
Overweight
Mortality
2018: Number of deaths in road accidents
2016: Number of opioid deaths
Economy
ECOWAS membership
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional organization established in 1975 to strengthen economic cooperation between West African countries .
GDP $740 per person
Inflation
2022: Inflation in November - 13.3%
Currency
In August 2019, new banknotes were issued in the Gambia.
Instead of portraits of Yaya Jammeh, the country's former president, the money shows birds.
The change of notes was one of the consequences of the work of the commission to investigate human rights violations caused by Jammeh's policies.
Alcohol market
Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages
Tourism
2019: How much Gambia is dependent on tourism:% of industry in GDP
R&D
2020: R&D expenses - $4 million
Agriculture
2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture
Consumption
Meat
2023: Fish consumption is higher than meat consumption
Vegetables
2018: Vegetable consumption - 20 kg per capita
Power
Electrification
2020: Energy consumption per capita
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Education
Percentage of people who can read
Health care
Maternity leave
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Crime
Prisons
2019: Minimum age for children to be jailed
2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens
History
2020
In March 2020, the Gambia was turbulent for a month. Deposed in 2017, dictator Yaya Jammeh wants to return to his homeland. The new authorities consider him a criminal, the international community - a tyrant, victims of his regime - a rapist and murderer, and some citizens - almost a saint. Replacing Jammeh in 2017, London security guard Adam Barrow, despite promising to leave the post three years later, refused to leave, threw the police at the dissatisfied and brought supporters to the streets. The outcome of the clash of the three political forces is unpredictable, and only the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic temporarily froze hot political battles.
2019: Jammeh crime investigation
In July 2019, the Gambia told about the previously unknown crimes of Yaya Jammeh. Read more here.
2017: Yaya Jammeh leaves country's presidency
Ahead of the 2016 election, a number of opposition members were sentenced to three years in prison for organising pro-democracy protests. In a public address, Yaya Jammeh called opposition members "opportunists supported by the West."
The elections were held on December 1, 2016, Jammeh lost. He disagreed with the result, filed a petition with the Supreme Court of the Gambia to challenge the result. ECOWAS warned on December 23 that it would intervene if Jammeh did not resign.
In January 2017, Gambian President Yaya Jammeh was forced out of office after ECOWAS launched a military operation to remove him from power.
2015: Jammeh carries out Islamisation of country
In 2015, Jammeh proclaimed Gambia an "Islamic state" and launched a powerful Islamization of the country. A native of a non-titular people desperately wanted to please the Mandinka Muslims, and after the coup the West turned away from him, so Jammeh turned to the Gulf countries. The Marabut's somnambulian "black Islam" was squeezed by aggressive Middle Eastern preachers. Jammeh built mosques, decorated the streets with quotes from the Koran, surrounded himself with pupils of the Wahhabis of Riyadh, making one of them - Imam Fatti - his personal spiritual mentor. And at the same time he married the daughter of a Moroccan preacher - a "pure" (that is, Arab blood, according to Gambians) Muslim. On Fridays, from year to year, sermons with a strong anti-American bias were broadcast on national TV, suspiciously resembling copies from bin Laden.
Downstairs, among the city's youth, the local branch of the Jamaata Tablig, banned in a number of countries, began to gain strength, women in burqas and men in short pants and with foreheads beaten off in prayers. Interestingly, there are quite a few young people at the rallies for the return of Yaya Jammeh, and especially - women dressed quite secularly or traditionally, although their quick-speaking speech in the Mandinka language is blown up over and over again by Arab ritual exclamations like "mashalla" that are triggered for a white man. It is no coincidence, by the way, that mashalas has become here the nickname of young neophytes "Jamaata Tablig" and all young radicals.
By 2020, the need for a new constitution was long overdue in the country, but the burning issue, whether or not to include a provision on the secular nature of the state, caused fierce debate. But what to do with the growing reformist youth, rejected by the communal world, elders and marabuts and nurtured on radical sermons, no one knows.
1994: Lt. Yaya Jammeh, 29, seizes power
On July 22, 1994, a group of soldiers led by 29-year-old Lieutenant Yaya Jammeh stormed the presidential palace.
President Jawara was expelled from the country (on an American warship he was taken to Senegal), later he went to live in London. In 2002, he returned to his homeland, agreeing never to engage in political activities.
In August 2019, at the age of 95, Dauda Kairaba Jawara died.
Promising a "new era of freedom, progress and democracy," Yaya Jammeh eventually unleashed a benchmark insanity in his tiny sleepy country, with a set of all textbook clichés - from luxury fleet to death squads.
1970: Jawara is Gambia's first president
Dauda Kairaba Jawara served as the first President of the Gambia from 1970 to 1994.
In the last election in 1992, he received 56% of the vote.
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1651: Courland colony on an island at the mouth of the Gambia River
Courland was formed in 1561. Under Duke Jacob Kettler, the state flourished. He created a fairly large merchant fleet in Europe.
After two unsuccessful attempts to colonize the island of Tobago off the coast of South America, Kettler switched to another part of the world, and in 1651 the first Courland colony in Africa was created, on James Island in the Gambia River.
Kurlyandians entered the mouth of the river on the 30-gun ship "Kit." They bought the island of St. Andrew from the local ruler (then it was called that way), and from other leaders - land along the banks of the river.
Fort Jacob was built on the island, as well as warehouses, slave barracks, a prison, a Lutheran church, residential buildings and 13 Dutch-style factories.
By 1655, the population of the Courland colony was 150-200 military men defending the fort, and several dozen merchants who traded with the local tribes and managed the factoria.
During the Northern War (1655-1660), the duchy fell into decay. During this period, a colony with merchant ships and trading posts was captured by Dutch colonists. They surrounded Fort Jacob and forced the Courland governor to surrender.
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