serviceyears branch children allegiance birth_date alma_mater term_start spouse rank image name vicepresident predecessor birth_place party office religion article_title birth_name
1984 -- 1996 gambian national army mariam muhammed gambia 25 may 1965 western hemisphere institute for security cooperation 22 july 1994 zeinab suma alima sallah -lrb- possibly divorced -rrb- colonel yahya jammeh.png yahya jammeh isatou njie-saidy sir dawda jawara kanilai , gambia alliance for patriotic reorientation and construction president of the gambia sunni islam yahya jammeh
 yahya abdul-aziz jemus junkung jammeh
yahya jammeh

yahya abdul-aziz jemus junkung jammeh -lrb- born 25 may 1965 -rrb- is the president of the gambia .
as a young army officer , he took power in a 1994 military coup .
he was elected as president in 1996 ; he was re-elected in 2001 , 2006 , and 2011 .
