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From the BBC:

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The tourists have been slow to come back to The Gambia
Jerome Starkey, writing in the UK Times, has been looking at how the Gambian political crisis has hit gigolos in the capital, Banjul.

Hotels and nightclubs "usually full to bursting with middle-aged female sex tourists, had been silenced by the threat of war", he wrote.

One gigolo, known locally as bumsters, said that business had collapsed when tourists left before the arrival of Senegalese-led forces to pressure long-time Yahya Jammeh to step down.

Mr Jammeh left the West African nation last month without any violence, opening the way for the man who defeated him in elections, former estate agent Adama Barrow, to take office.

Amadou Sarr, 33, told Starkey that he wanted "a woman who is maximum 61, or 65" who will give him a house and "I will sit here and wait for you".

He added that he previously had a 55-year-old girlfriend from Nottingham in the UK.

Read more on the history of the bumster phenomenon from 2006 by the BBC's Lucy Fleming.