LEAD. Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database
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Gambia

294 recorded engagements by Gambia's heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers, 1990–2025.

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294Engagements
292Visits
0Phone calls
2Video conferences
32Signed agreements
57Destination countries
13Officials recorded
130Multilateral summits

LEAD records 32 signed agreements for Gambia; registered users can browse them in the Agreements register.

At a glance

Between 1990 and 2025, Gambia's leaders recorded 294 engagements: 292 in-person visits, 0 phone calls and 2 video conferences. Activity peaked in 1998, with 25 engagements that year. The most frequent destination was United States of America (36 engagements), followed by Nigeria and Senegal. Diplomacy and Foreign Relations was the most common topic, present in 99% of engagements. 32 engagements produced a signed agreement, and 130 took place at multilateral summits. The most active official on record is Yahya Jammeh (President), with 171 engagements between 1994 and 2016.

Activity by year

Every engagement recorded for Gambia, 1990–2025. Hover a bar for the exact count.

1990: 4 engagements1991: 2 engagements1992: 4 engagements1993: 1 engagement1994: 4 engagements1995: 6 engagements1996: 6 engagements1997: 12 engagements1998: 25 engagements1999: 12 engagements2000: 11 engagements2001: 6 engagements2002: 9 engagements2003: 8 engagements2004: 12 engagements2005: 15 engagements2006: 7 engagements2007: 5 engagements2008: 6 engagements2009: 8 engagements2010: 4 engagements2011: 4 engagements2012: 9 engagements2013: 6 engagements2014: 7 engagements2015: 3 engagements2016: 3 engagements2017: 15 engagements2018: 10 engagements2019: 9 engagements2020: 6 engagements2021: 7 engagements2022: 15 engagements2023: 9 engagements2024: 12 engagements2025: 12 engagements19901995200020052010201520202025

Most-visited countries

  • United States of America36
  • Nigeria32
  • Senegal29
  • Mauritania14
  • Saudi Arabia12
  • Libya11
  • Taiwan10
  • Ghana9
  • Guinea8
  • Guinea-Bissau8
  • Morocco7
  • Liberia7

Discussion topics

  • Diplomacy and Foreign Relations292
  • Regional Organizations and Multilateral Affairs132
  • Trade and Economic Relations54
  • Development and Aid3
  • Education and Culture1

Cite this profile

Ozturk, Y., Atabas, H., Guler, E., Duyar, B., & Yucel, R. (2026). Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database [Data set]. Africa Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22976211 [Gambia country profile. Accessed 22 October 2026. https://lead-database.netlify.app/country/gambia.html]

Every part of the site quotes this same reference; other formats (MLA, Chicago, Harvard, BibTeX) are on the About page, which also describes the coding rules and sources. Figures here were generated from the dataset on 2026-10-22 and describe outbound engagements by Gambia's own officials.