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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Momodou[/i] [br][b][size=4]The crack in Gambia's smile[/size=4] BBC Online[/b] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37716674 [img]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/B45A/production/_85607164_85607163.jpg[/img] [i][b]President Yahya Jammeh has ruled The Gambia since a coup more than 20 years ago[/b][/i] The Gambia is known to tourists as "the smiling coast of West Africa", but this masks something more troubling. On his last trip before his untimely death this week, journalist Chris Simpson navigated the different worlds that exist in the small country. I had been in The Gambian capital, Banjul, less than an hour and here I was, car pulled over, explaining my business to a group of men in uniform. A thrillingly sinister start to a week-long holiday? Not quite. I had fallen into the clutches of the tourist police, identity badges to the fore, courteous to a fault. "Are you lost?" they asked. They had guessed right. A 12-hour journey from neighbouring Senegal had taken its toll and I had lost patience with my taxi driver's wearing "welcome to Africa" banter and general cluelessness. Sheepishly, I agreed to a police escort. The commander jumped in next to the somewhat nonplussed man at the wheel and me, the slightly fake out-of-season tourist[url="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37716674"]........................... Read more[/url] [b] Soundcloud Audio:[/b] https://soundcloud.com/westafricademocracyradio/daybreak-challenge-chris-simpson-former-bbc-correspondent-in-africa [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.