Gambia’s Jammeh, facing military pressure, says steps down
By Pap Saine BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia’s leader Yahya Jammeh said he was stepping down on Saturday under pressure from West African armies which entered Read more
By Pap Saine BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia’s leader Yahya Jammeh said he was stepping down on Saturday under pressure from West African armies which entered Read more
Gambia’s army chief General Ousman Badjie said he recognized new President Adama Barrow as the new commander-and-chief and would not fight a regional force poised Read more
The deadline for defeated President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to quit or forced out by UN-backed forces has expired with no news. The earlier Read more
President of Guinea Alpha Conde and that of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf arrived Banjul, Gambia, on Friday for a last minute talk with outgoing President Yahya Read more
Sworn-in in Dakar, the new President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, may have returned to Banjul on Friday as ECOWAS troops give more time for Read more
Political turmoil in Gambia has driven about 45,000 people, mainly children, to flee into Senegal since Jan. 1, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Read more
Gambia’s Minister of Information, Sidie Njie, has insisted that Yahya Jammeh will not step down as President even as ECOWAS soldiers inside the country gather Read more
Adama Barrow has taken the oath of office as Gambia’s new president. He was sworn-in about 5pm Senegalese time at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, Senegal. Read more
Nigeria’s fighter jets have been flying over The Gambia as West African regional forces continue to flex their muscles ahead of a military intervention to Read more
The UN Security Council has affirmed that Adama Barrow is now the President of The Gambia. All the 15 council members unanimously adopted Resolution 2337, Read more
Gambia’s new president, Adama Barrow is very active in the social media, Facebook and Twitter. And he likes tweeting like Donald Trump. He joined Twitter Read more
West African leaders on Friday said they would travel once again to The Gambia in a last-minute effort to convince election loser Yahya Jammeh to Read more
ECOWAS troops halted their march into Gambia Thursday night to give former president Yahya Jammeh, one more last chance to leave Banjul. Jammeh has up Read more
West African nations launched a military operation in Gambia on Thursday, Senegal’s army said, aiming to install its new President Adama Barrow and remove longtime Read more
By Tim Cocks and Emma Farge BANJUL/DAKAR (Reuters) – Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow will be sworn in at the Gambian embassy in neighbouring Senegal on Read more
DAKAR (Reuters) – Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow will be sworn in at a ceremony in the Gambian embassy in neighbouring Senegal on Thursday, diplomatic sources Read more
By Emma Farge and Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz flew to Senegal to meet with President Macky Sall after Read more
BANJUL (Reuters) – British tour operator Thomas Cook started evacuating nearly 1,000 holidaymakers from Gambia on Wednesday after President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of Read more
BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia’s National Assembly has passed a resolution to allow President Yahya Jammeh to stay in office for three months from Wednesday, state Read more
The U.S. has warned the embattled President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia, saying he is losing opportunities to peacefully handover to President-elect Adama Barrow and Read more
The son of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has died after being bitten by a dog. Eight-year-old Habibu Barrow is reported to have died on the Read more
Three more Gambian ministers have resigned from the government despite a vow by defeated President Yahya Jammeh vowed to remain in office. Jammeh the defeated Read more
The seven-year-old son of Gambia’s president-elect, Adama Barrow has been killed by a dog. Habib was attacked in the town of Manjai and died on Read more
The top judge in Gambia’s Supreme Court declined on Monday to rule on President Yahya Jammeh’s petition to overturn his election defeat, marking a dead Read more
Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow will stay in Senegal until his inauguration on January 19, the Senegalese authorities announced on Saturday night. The government said they Read more
By Emma Farge DAKAR (Reuters) – Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has left the country for neighbouring Senegal, a coalition member and local media said on Read more
By Lamin Jahateh BANJUL (Reuters) – The political party of Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh, who lost an election last month but has refused to accept Read more
BANJUL (Reuters) – African judges due to help Gambia’s supreme court hear a challenge by President Yahya Jammeh’s electoral defeat last December failed to show Read more
Gambia’s information minister Sheriff Bojang has resigned to protest President Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to accept defeat in last month’s presidential election, reports say. Efforts to Read more
DAKAR (Reuters) – Gambia’s communication minister, Sheriff Bojang, said on Monday he had left his post in the first high-profile Cabinet defection since President Yahya Read more
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