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Introducing grant corruption. Grand corruption is the abuse of high level power that benefits the few at the expense of the many grand corruption causes serious and widespread harm to individuals and society. The Gambia is the smallest country in mainland Africa, with a population of less than two million. Its economy is heavily reliant upon the export of peanuts and around 50% of the population lives in poverty. Yaya Jammeh seized control of the Gambia during a coup in 1994, overseeing a brutal dictatorship for 22 years. Countless human rights abuses and corrupt practices were recorded by national and international organizations. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. All C CRP estimates that the regime plundered $1 billion dollars from the country. Gambian citizens were left without health care, schools, pensions and basic infrastructure. The O. C. Crp estimates that Jammeh misappropriated over $975 million of state funds, looting vast sums from the central bank, the state pension and welfare funds as well as the state run telecoms and oil companies. Jammeh's regime brutally repressed political dissent through mass arrests, torture and forced disappearances, corruption was the driver and the enabler of the regime's countless human rights abuses. Grand corruption motivates and enables human rights abuses and atrocities. Grand corruption blocks our achievement of the sustainable development goals. The international community must prioritize tackling grand corruption and agree strategies to stop state captured by private interests around the world