Tag: Gambia

The Gambia is a key transit point for South American cocaine being smuggled to Europe. In February, over 800 kg of cocaine that had...

The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) have taken delivery of a consignment of military hardware donated by Turkey, including two Otokar Cobra armoured personnel carriers. The...

There was no gunfire in Banjul, the capital of The Gambia, on December 20, 2022, or the next day when the government announced it...

The US Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk has made port calls in The Gambia and Sierra Leone under its forward deployment to the US Naval...

Gambia has apparently become the latest customer for Turkey’s Hizir armoured personnel carrier, after ordering 20 of the type. Africa Intelligence reported last year that...

After two decades of dictatorship, The Gambia embraced democracy with President Adama Barrow’s 2016 election victory. But as is often the case in transitions...

To improve the political stability of African nations, the African Union recently launched its Centre for Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD). The new agency is...

Gambian police fired tear gas on Monday to disperse supporters of losing presidential candidate Ousainou Darboe who had taken to the streets outside the...

Gambian President Adama Barrow has comfortably won re-election, the electoral commission said on Sunday, though he may face a legal challenge from opposition candidates...

At a pre-election rally last month, supporters of Gambia's main opposition coalition cheered the opening of the star attraction - a speech by former...

A Gambian commission wrapped up a sweeping three-year public inquiry into former president Yahya Jammeh's 22 years in power on Thursday by recommending prosecutions...

German police detained a Gambian man on Tuesday suspected of participating in crimes against humanity, including the killing of a journalist, as a driver...

Gambian authorities seized nearly three tonnes of cocaine from a shipment of industrial salt originating in Ecuador, a spokesman said on Friday, in one...

The Gambian Armed Forces have ordered reverse osmosis water purification equipment from South Africa’s ELW Global, which will supply its ROWPU 2K trailer-mounted system. The...

Zineb Jammeh, wife of former Gambia president, Yahya Jammeh, was hit with US sanctions for her role in the economic plunder of the tiny...

Gambia’s government called on Tuesday for a credible and transparent investigation into the shooting death of one of its citizens by US police in...

Launched in 2018 amid optimism that it would help stabilise The Gambia, the African Union’s (AU) mission to the country faces challenging months ahead....

Gambian police arrested 137 people and more than 24 were injured as protests calling for President Adama Barrow to honour a pledge to step...

The genocide case brought against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) - the first initiated since the 1990s - may not have...

Gambia filed a case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority, Gambian Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou...

Speaking through tears, in a hearing streamed live on YouTube, former beauty queen Fatou Jallow told how Gambia’s ex-president Yahya Jammeh locked her in...

Three ex-army officers in Gambia, who told a truth commission they participated in killings ordered by former president Yahya Jammeh, will be released, a...

A Gambian army officer testified he and two colleagues shot dead journalist Deyda Hydara in 2004 on orders from then- President Yahya Jammeh, providing...

Eight former soldiers were sentenced for plotting to overthrow Gambia’s president Adama Barrow in 2017 with the help of his ousted predecessor, the country’s...

Despite having policy on post-conflict reconstruction and development since 2006, the African Union (AU) has long struggled to turn this into a practical and...

Former Gambia president Yahya Jammeh personally stole at least $362 million (278 million pounds) from the state during his 22-year rule, the justice minister...

edoIn early 2017, The Gambia was hurtling toward a crisis. Its longtime president, Yahya Jammeh, had lost the presidential election but refused to accept...

On 7 January, a group of young military officers in Libreville, Gabon, tried to overthrow the government of President Ali Bongo Ondimba. The challenge...

Yahya Jammeh was going to be "trouble" for Gambia from the moment he seized power, the first witness to a commission convened to investigate...

France gave 30 million euros ($34 million) of aid to Gambia as part of efforts to support democratic transition and ensure stability...

Gambia is selling several planes and a fleet of luxury cars bought by former president Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce...

Italian police have arrested an immigrant from Gambia suspected of planning an attack on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) militant group,...

Gambian President Adama Barrow announced a moratorium on the death penalty as the West African country rebuilds following the removal last year...

Gambia rejoined the Commonwealth, the tiny West African former British colony's foreign ministry said, five years after its now exiled former authoritarian...

The president found a cure for AIDS. That news reached Ousman Sowe, the head of a Gambian AIDS support network, in 2007....

Military authorities in Gambia arrested two of ex-strongman Yahya Jammeh's generals when unexpectedly returned from exile over the weekend, the army said...

Gambia is negotiating deals with three private companies to crack down on rampant illegal fishing in its territorial waters, a senior official...

African Petroleum Corp plans to go to court to resolve its dispute with Gambia, the Norwegian-listed company said after government stripped it...

When 52 West African migrants sneaked into Gambia from Senegal on July 21, 2005, they expected to meet a boat to ferry...

Former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko will remain in a Swiss jail for three more months after the country's attorney general broadened...

West African troops extended a military mission in Gambia by a year after entering the country in January to force out longtime...

Gambian authorities seized assets including 86 bank accounts and 131 properties linked to former president Yahya Jammeh, an official said, as an...

In his quest to reach Europe, 22-year old Gambian Mafu Hydara spent six days with little food or water crossing the Sahara...

A hundred and sixty-nine Gambian migrants returned home on Tuesday, after journeying across the Sahara in harsh conditions only to get stuck...

A hundred and sixty-nine Gambian migrants returned home on Tuesday, after journeying across the Sahara in harsh conditions only to get stuck...

Gambia said on Thursday it would set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and offer reparations to victims of former President Yahya...

Gambia's government will launch an investigation into the finances of former president Yahya Jammeh including personal use of a charity bank account...

Gambian authorities have released 98 prisoners, mostly from the notorious Mile 2 prison, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, as the country seeks...

When Gambian intelligence officers arrested journalist Ebrima Manneh at his newspaper, he asked an office guard to save some tea. "I'm coming right...

Gambian President Adama Barrow replaced the head of the military, a pillar of his predecessor's repressive government and dismissed a number of...