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	Gambia - Encyclopedia.com
		Gambia river, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, rising on the Fouta Djallon, N Guinea, W Africa, and flowing generally northwest through SE Senegal then west, bisecting The Gambia, to the Atlantic Ocean at Banjul.
		In 1978, Senegal and The Gambia formed the Gambia River Development Organization (which was joined by Guinea in 1980) for the purpose of developing the river's natural resources.
		The Gambia to receive US$91 million in debt service relief;The IMF and World Bank support debt relief for the Gambia under the enhanced HIPC Initiative.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-GambiaRiv.html (1050 words)

	The Gambia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gambia was once part of the Empire of Ghana and the Songhai Empire.
		During the late 17th century and throughout the 18th, England and France struggled continuously for political and commercial supremacy in the regions of the Senegal and Gambia Rivers.
		The Gambia withdrew from the confederation in 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Gambia (1460 words)

	The Gambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Republic of The Gambia is a nation of western Africa, entirely surrounded by Senegal, except for a short coastline which is the outlet of the Gambia River to the North Atlantic Ocean.
		During the late 17th century and throughout the 18th, England and France struggled continuously for political and commercial supremacy in the regions of the Senegal and Gambia River s.
		The 1783 Treaty of Versailles gave Great Britain possession of The Gambia, but the French retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on the north bank of the river which was ceded to the United Kingdom in 1857.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-The_Gambia.html (516 words)

	Politics of The Gambia : Government of The Gambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Politics of The Gambia : Government of The Gambia
		The 1970 constitution of The Gambia, which divided the government into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches, was suspended after the 1994 military coup.
		It uses material from the wikipedia article Politics of The Gambia : Government of The Gambia.
	www.eurofreehost.com /go/Government_of_The_Gambia.html (471 words)

	Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The Gambia.
		The longitudinal nature of this work allows the reader to observe the shifting sands of foreign aid programs in The Gambia over two decades and is therefore an excellent empirical case study that demonstrates some of the problems that arise when development objectives rapidly shift from one paradigm to the next.
		In this case, it is the shift in donor priorities from WID to sustainable development programs that enables men to regain some of the economic power lost to women as a result of their success in the gardens.
		In essence, Schroeder’s book is one part political ecology, one part political economy and one part farming systems research that powerfully demonstrates the value of longitudinal studies that examine the dynamics of development at the local level within Sub-Saharan Africa.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v6/v6i1a14.htm (1236 words)

	Gambia, Africa - Books, Maps and Atlasesfor sale
		The Gambia is one of West Africa's better-known travel destinations, with an excellent tourist infrastructure, allowing all areas of the country to be explored with the aid of this thorough guide.
		The Gambia and Senegal are an ideal gateway to the diversity and cultural richness of West Africa.
		Based on close observation, the text describes the 1975 reintroduction of two chimpanzees, born in the London Zoo, to the forests of Gambia through the Gambian Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project.
	www.africaguide.com /country/gambia/books.htm (820 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Country profiles \| Country profile: The Gambia
		Despite the presence of the Gambia river, which runs through the middle of the country, only one-sixth of the land is arable and poor soil quality has led to the predominance of one crop - peanuts.
		In 1994 The Gambia's elected government was toppled in a military coup.
		The country representative of the United Nations development programme in The Gambia, Fadzai Gwaradzimba, was told to leave the country after she expressed doubts about the president's claims and said the remedy might encourage risky behaviour.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1032156.stm (802 words)

	Economy of The Gambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Gambia has a liberal market-based economy characterized by traditional subsistence agriculture a historic reliance on peanuts or for export earnings a re-export trade built around its ocean port low import duties administrative procedures a fluctuating exchange rate with exchange controls and a significant tourism industry.
		In FY 1999 the U.K. and other countries were The Gambia's major domestic export accounting for 86% in total; followed by Asia at 14%; and the African subregion including Senegal Guinea-Bissau and Ghana at 8%.
		The Gambia 11% of its exports going to and of its imports coming from the United States.
	www.freeglossary.com /Gambia/Economy (824 words)

	THE GAMBIA FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Republic of The Gambia is a country in West_Africa.
		It is the smallest country within the African continent and is entirely surrounded by Senegal, with the Gambia_River emptying into the Atlantic_Ocean in its center.
		The Gambia is a very small and narrow country with the border based on the Gambia_River.
	velocipay.com /The_Gambia (1369 words)

	The Gambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During the late 17th century and throughout the 18th England and France struggled continuously for political and commercial in the regions of the Senegal and Gambia Rivers.
		The 1783 Treaty of Versailles gave Great Britain possession of The Gambia but the retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on north bank of the river which was to the United Kingdom in 1857.
		The Gambia achieved independence on February 18 1965 as a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth.
	www.freeglossary.com /Country_GMB (575 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Republic of The Gambia is a nation in West Africa.
		The Gambia was once part of the Ghana and Songhai Empires.
		The Gambia has benefited from a rebound in tourism after its decline in response to the military's takeover in July 1994.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Gambia (629 words)

	JoD contents, October 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Politics in the Arab Middle East is often a matter of powerholders first liberalizing—and then “deliberalizing”—public life in order to maintain their rule.
		During the 1990s, politics in the small post-Soviet state of Moldova was more competitive than anyone would have expected.
		The Gambia provides a lesson in how authoritarians can hold votes yet rob their people of the power that the ballot box is supposed to give them.
	www.journalofdemocracy.org /tocs/tococt02.htm (560 words)

	The Gambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Republic of The Gambia is a nation of western Africa, entirelysurrounded by Senegal, except for a short coastline which is the outlet of the Gambia River to the North Atlantic Ocean.
		The 1783 Treaty of Versailles gave Great Britain possession of The Gambia, but the French retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on the north bankof the river which was ceded to the United Kingdom in 1857.
		The Gambia achieved independence on February 18, 1965, as a constitutional monarchywithin the British Commonwealth.
	www.therfcc.org /the-gambia-16376.html (333 words)

	Gambian Bibliography - Government and politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Politics And The Functional Strategy To International Integration: Gambia In Senegambian Integration, 1958-1974.
		The configuration of political authority, the "status quo," skews subsidies to those households that are most effective at articulating demand on housing institutions, and this results in inequitable outcomes.
		This study examined factors and processes contributing to militarization in The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone from the colonial period to 1985.
	www.africanculture.dk /gambia/biblio/citations/govt.htm (1856 words)

	allAfrica.com: Gambia
		Jolly Riders Foundation in the UK in collaboration with the Board of the Foundation in the Gambia handed over 600 bicycles to students of the upper basic and senior secondary Schools at a presentation held at Gunjur Kombo South, on Thursday 25 October 2007.
		The loan agreement between OPEC and The Gambia government for the Third Public Works Project, signed in Vienna, Austria, on 5th September, 2007 was on Wednesday ratified by Members of the National Assembly, at an extra-ordinary session held at the Assembly Chambers in Banjul.
		The US$4 M between the Government of the Republic of The Gambia and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) for the Highway and Street Lightening Project, was yesterday unanimously ratified by Members of the National Assembly, at an extra-ordinary session held at the Assembly Chambers in Banjul.
	www.allafrica.com /gambia (1074 words)

	Politics Of The Gambia - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 5)
		The Stewardship of James F.P. Gomez as councillor and as mayor of Banjul: P.P.P. candidate, Purtuguese [sic] Town Ward, Banjul South
		The manufacture of dissent: Work, politics, and hegemony in a peasant society
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /politics_of_the_gambia.htm (137 words)

	Gambia encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Gambia politics and officials, Gambian History. Travel to Gambia
		The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in Western Africa.
		The River Gambia flows through the centre of the country and empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
		In 1965, The Gambia became independent from the British Empire.
	www.gambiaiworld.com (241 words)

	Economic Geography: Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The Gambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As an example of political ecology, Shady Practices contains classic themes of land tenure, access, and control, while paying particular attention to how household relations are reconfigured in the midst of economic and climatic change.
		He then discusses the political, economic, and ecological context of the garden boom and outlines the subsequent resource management interventions.
		First, Schroeder relies primarily upon economic and political processes in explaining the reconfiguration of gender dynamics and land use in The Gambia, but some cultural explanations may also be relevant in this case.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3660/is_200101/ai_n8949325 (1074 words)

	Gambia, The
		Situated on the Atlantic coast in westernmost Africa and surrounded on three sides by Senegal, Gambia is twice the size of Delaware.
		The Portuguese were the first European explorers, encountering the Gambia River in 1455, and in 1681 the French founded an enclave at Albredabut.
		Gambia became a British Crown colony in 1843 and an independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations on Feb. 18, 1965.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107560.html (641 words)

	Alternative Press Index: Volume 28
		Comparison of Liberia under the PRC (1980-89), Sierra Leone under the NPRC (1992-96) and the Gambia under the AFPRC (1994) shows that instead the regimes are marked by violence and instability, and in two cases by the outbreak of civil war.
		These characteristics are attributed to the lumpen culture of the militariat, to its subversion of military discipline, and to the decay of political and social institutions under the precursor regimes.
		Thus, in addition to the intellectual and political biography of Rodney, the reader is also given a concise overview of the political terrain within which Rodney was largely formed and was politically active.
	www.altpress.org /1996_g.htm (2513 words)

	Gambian Bibliography - Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The focus of the dissertation is on the performances and activities of praisesingers and the ways in which these activities act as powerful texts of culture and politics in The Gambia and the West.
		Sho have!" (shaking the head 'yes' in agreement that we have not seen each other); the sound-meaning correspondences of verbal /be/ in its "invariant" form; the existence of noun and adjective in predicative and modifying functions; and the "absence" of copula in certain constructs.
		The most innovative aspects of this study are the reporting on the connections between the earliest written language, Ancient Egyptian, and the languages of "Black" Africa, and on the recognition of the existence of a second creole language in Southwest Louisiana, Louisiana Creole English.
	www.africanculture.dk /gambia/biblio/citations/culture.htm (2251 words)

	Journal of Political Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Gambia has witnessed a series of unique and fascinating transformations in the last three decades of exposure to the forces of international “development”.
		In the Gambia, this was clearly illustrated by the shift from “gardens are good” to “orchards are good” that occurred in the 1990’s.
		In the Gambia, calls to improve the environment were taken up by NGOs and manipulated by landowners, resulting in a threat to hard-won gardening rights, and an attempt to capture women’s labor to further economic goals of male landowners.
	dizzy.library.arizona.edu /ej/jpe/volume_8/1011hamilton.html (2759 words)

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		Politically, this is a welcome step towards women’s empowerment and participation in politics and public life"
		Amie Sillah who stood for elections and failed to be elected for the second time said that she has been in the political arena for 21 years and just celebrated her silver jubilee with her husband.
		I believe in the struggle for women’s rights and responsibilities and my husband is always there to support me’ She said there is still need to encourage women in politics and decision making.
	www.chss.iup.edu /certj/jammCH.htm (474 words)

	Gambiabib
		The political economy of tourism in The Gambia.
		Sallah, Tijan M. Economics and politics in The Gambia.
		The military coup in the Gambia and its implications for democracy.
	www.univie.ac.at /handbuch-afrika/laender/Gambiabib.htm (290 words)

	PakDef Forums - Gambia to strengthen trade ties with Pakistan
		He said that Gambia is a gateway to East African countries, and Pakistani government will give serious thought to installing pharmaceutical and other engineering plants through joint venture in Gambia.
		He said Gambia being the largest importer of rice in West Africa is interested in importing 150,000 tones of Basmati broken rice from Pakistan.
		Babucarr said that President of Gambia will be visiting Pakistan on 23rd of March this year along with a large business delegation to explore the possibilities of further trade ties.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=918 (482 words)

	GTS - USA links and political criticism comment
		Our view is that 'many of the people' in The Gambia are suffering from 'Economic Slavery' and until that is addressed, politics for those people is just a side issue.
		Critics who drag up the Colonial Past or trade Black versus White insults, are talking the politics of hatred and revenge and do their cause no good, their mistrust is their own vulnerability.
		Emails and messages from supporters have greatly outnumbered the others, but it is sad that there are Gambians who would like to destroy the tourist industry, despite the suffering that that will cause ordinary people, using it as a political weapon to try and gain power for themselves or their masters.
	website.lineone.net /%7egambiagts/AidContainerUSA.htm (545 words)

	nov30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The leader of the main opposition party in The Gambia, the United Democratic Party (UDP), Lawyer Ousainou Darboe was reportedly arrested and detained on Friday 22 November 2002 by The Gambia Police Force.
		Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and other members of the UDP were picked up by police in an organised conducted raid from their home and detained in various police stations in the Greater Banjul Area.
		The UDP had said here in The Gambia that it will file a law suit at the High Court in Banjul, The Gambia, challenging the detention of it's leader Uosainou Darboe and others who were picked up on Friday 22 November 2002 from their homes by the gambian police force.
	www.expotimes.net /backissuesnov2/nov30.htm (871 words)

	Global Voices Online » Gambia
		Torture in Gambia, “Militocracy” in Africa, Press Freedom and Dirty Water and Gold
		Read bloggers' write about flooding in Burkina Faso, Nigeria's withdrawal from the Bakassi peninsula, an opinion about NEPAD and politics in Gambia.
		A Gambia Professor, Ba Banutu Gomez, leaves the US and returns to Gambia, but…: “What gets under my skin though is the tendency of African intellectuals returning home and all of a sudden converting to the religion of sycophancy to fit in the system.”
	www.globalvoicesonline.org /-/world/sub-saharan-africa/gambia (587 words)

	Encyclopedia: Politics of the Gambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Independence: 18 February 1965 (from UK); note - The Gambia and Senegal signed an agreement on 12 December 1981 that called for the creation of a loose confederation to be known as Senegambia, but the agreement was dissolved on 30 September 1989
		Constitution: 24 April 1970; suspended July 1994; rewritten and approved by national referendum 8 August 1996; reestablished in January 1997
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Politics-of-the-Gambia (865 words)

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