​New president: Adam Barrow

Outgoing president: Yahya Jammeh (seized power during the 1994 coup D'Etat)

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Recent News:

• The Guardian - Yahya Jammeh leaves the Gambia after 22 years of rule 

• Al Jazeera - Adama Barrow pledges truth commission over Yahya Jammeh

• BBC - Ex-President Yahya Jammeh leaves the Gambia after losing election

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Background Information:

• BBC - The Gambia country profile

• The Commonwealth - The Gambia: Economy

• Human Rights Watch: Gambia
• BBC - Gambia political crisis: What happens next?

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Life under Jammeh's rule - human rights abuses:

• Human Rights Watch - Gambia: Events of 2015

• Amnesty International - Gambia has ridden itself of Yahya Jammeh - the world must not forget it when the news cycle moves on

• Amnesty - Gambia: Dangerous to dissent: Human rights under threat in Gambia

On President Adam Barrow:

• The Guardian - Adama Barrow: from Argos security guard to president of the Gambia

• BBC - Gambia elections: President-elect Adama Barrow's life story

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Latest News:

Guardian: US eases sanctions against Sudan, citing humanitarian improvements

Boomberg: Sudan Foreign Minister wants U.S. to remove terror sponsor label

Sudan Tribune: South Sudan bans NGOs from operating in rebel-controlled area

​Vice News: South Sudan rejects new peacekeeping troop even as citizens continue to flee

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Basic background information: 

Vox: The conflict in South Sudan, explained

BBC: South Sudan: What is the fighting about?

Vox video: South Sudan may be heading towards genocide

Youtube video: South Sudan, the World's Newest Country

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More reports/ articles:

BBC: South Sudan Country profile

HBO: Saving South Sudan

Mercy Corps: Quick facts: What you need to know about the South Sudan crisis

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More reports/articles:

Telegraph:Tom Hiddleston criticised for 'white saviour' Golden Globes speech

Aljazeera: UN: 'Ethnic cleansing under way' in South Sudan

The Telegraph: UN peacekeepers in South Sudan 'turned blind eye' to rape and abuse of American aid workers

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More videos/ documentaries/podcasts/books:

Book: They poured fire on us by Ajak Deng 

University of Oxford podcast: FMR 36 What hope for IDPs in a new Sudan

BBC podcast: South Sudan – can the world’s youngest country survive?

Al Jazeera documentary: What's gone wrong in South Sudan?

Vice news documentary: Saving South Sudan