Yahya Jammeh har en del komiska drag, precis som svenska sjuklverpolitiker. T.ex. har hans officiella titel varit His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Aziz Awal Jemus Junkung Jammeh Naasiru Deen Babili Mansa. Han har dock under senaste ret kortat ned sin tilltalstitel en aning. Kanske tyckte han det var lite vl lngt och inte tillrckligt catchigt?
Han har ven psttt sig ha lyckats blanda ihop olika rtbrygder som botar allt frn HIV/Aids till hgt blodtryck och kvinnors infertilitet.
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In January 2007, Jammeh claimed he could cure HIV/AIDS and asthma with natural herbs.[23][24] His claimed treatment program includes instructing patients to cease taking their anti-retroviral drugs.[25][26] His claims have been criticized for promoting unscientific treatment that could have dangerous results, due to the belief that those discharged from his program cannot infect others.[23][24] In December 2011, he restated during an interview that the alleged cure for HIV/AIDS was "going very well".[27]
Fadzai Gwaradzimba, the country representative of the United Nations Development Programme in the Gambia, was told to leave the country after she expressed doubts about the claims and said the remedy might encourage risky behaviour.[28] In August 2007, Jammeh claimed to have developed a single dose herbal infusion that could treat high blood pressure.[29] Jammeh has also claimed to develop a treatment for infertility in women as part of what is called the President's Alternative Treatment Program (PATP).
Han har ven tidigare tagit beslut utifrn behovet att terupprtta landets kulturella arv (min fetning):
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According to the Daily Observer newspaper, Jammeh claimed on 26 July 2010, that Gambia had played an important role in the aviation industry, specifically, "that the first Atlantic flight and the first flight from Eastern Europe landed in the Gambia."[33] At the same time Jammeh also stated that "this country is one of the oldest and biggest countries in Africa that was reduced to a small snake by the British government who sold all our lands to the French."[33]
In 1996, Jammeh institutionalized The International Roots Festival. Since then, the festival has attracted hundreds of Africans from the Diaspora to the Gambia to reconnect with their African Ancestry and to immerse themselves in the culture of Africa and to come back to their roots.[34] In 2011, Jammeh renamed James Island to Kunta Kinte Island at the request of American Artist Chaz Guest.
Oavsett eventuella mindre positiva sidor hos presidenten, s har han tminstone tagit tag i det omfattande problemet med hxor (frvisso frst nr han misstnkte att de hade ddat en av hans slktingar med magi):
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In March 2009 Amnesty International reported that up to 1,000 Gambians had been abducted by government-sponsored "witch doctors" on charges of witchcraft, and taken to detention centers where they were forced to drink poisonous concoctions.[49] On 21 May 2009, The New York Times reported that the alleged witch-hunting campaign had been sparked by the President Yahya Jammeh, who believed that the death of his aunt earlier that year could be attributed to witchcraft.
I vrigt r det vl samma saker som i de flesta andra afrikanska lnder. Det vstlnderna kanske mest har kritiserat r den hrdfra politiken mot homosexuella och Jammehs stndiga lften att sjlv slakta alla homos han rkar stta p.
Mer kan man lsa hr, varifrn jag ven tog citaten:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Jammeh
