The Gambia: a short billion years

Democracy requires and strengthens the rule of law. And because of the 'wisdom of crowds': the voters get it right, or at least partly right, more often than any narrower decision-making group.
LONDON, ENGLAND—“We will win the biggest landslide this country has ever seen,” said The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh before the small West African country’s recent election, and he had every reason to be confident. Jammeh had been in power for 22 years, and he knew how to run an electi...

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