Gambia: Belgium had advised The Gambia government NOT to award Passport & I.D Card Contracts to Seml, page-6

True. But politics is always a zero sum game, and in a poor country the distance between winner and loser really blows out when oil bounty comes into play. As long as crude is at these levels there will be rabble rousers back home, just as there will be nouveau riche Africaine occupying entire wings of the Dorchester, Claridges and other suitable doss-houses abroad.
This is all situation normal. TIA, as some have observed. It does worry me, though, when agents provocateur like the Blairs show up. The only thing worse would be WPL champion Alex Downer 007.
Cheers and let’s go spud