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Gambia's Ex-Dictator Jammeh Reportedly Wants to Come Home

Associated Press

   BANJUL, GAMBIA - Gambia's longtime dictator Yahya Jammeh, who fled into
   exile three years ago after an election loss, has announced plans to
   return to the West African nation where human rights activists say he
   ordered the killings of political opponents during his rule.

   The deputy spokesman for Jammeh's political party released several
   audio recordings to the media over the weekend featuring conversations
   between Jammeh and a top party official.

   "I am coming back. They said they drove me out of the country. Apart
   from Allah, nobody can take me out of The Gambia," Jammeh is heard
   saying. The recordings could not be independently verified and it was
   not clear when they had been made.

   His two-decade-long rule was marked by arbitrary arrests, enforced
   disappearances and extrajudicial killings, according to rights
   activists. Along with political opponents, Jammeh also targeted
   journalists and members of the gay community.

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