The Gambia's justice minister has promised a new constitution to be voted on by referendum as the tiny west African country transitions from the long rule of former strongman Yahya Jammeh. Attorney...
The head of a West African force maintaining security in The Gambia told AFP Friday that army officials loyal to veteran former leader Yahya Jammeh were plotting against the new government. West...
The Gambia’s United Democratic Party (UDP) emerged from decades in opposition in the country’s parliament to take its first absolute majority on Friday, as support for former leader Yahya...
Gambia's victorious UDP party has told the BBC that President Adama Barrow is still not a member of the party However, UDP general secretary Ousainou Darboe said the party would support the...
The Gambia's longtime opposition won an absolute majority in parliamentary elections, easily defeating the party of ousted leader Yahya Jammeh, results announced Friday showed. Official results...
Gambians will today vote for members of their one-chamber parliament. They are the first polls since Yahya Jammeh left power after more than 22 years as president. Mr Jammeh sparked a political and...
Gambians head to the polls on Thursday for the first time since the departure of longtime leader Yahya Jammeh, with multiple parties poised to enter parliament after 22 years of effective one-party...
They came to dance in green t-shirts adorned with Yahya Jammeh's grinning face and to sing the old songs of adulation as though he never went away. The Gambia's former ruling party, the Alliance for...
The Gambia's ruling coalition has broken apart ahead of a parliamentary poll next month, dealing a blow to new President Adama Barrow as he overhauls the country's political system following his...
Gambian coalition parties that united last year to deliver the first new president in 22 years are unlikely to run together for legislative elections next month, a senior government source told AFP....
Gambian police have launched an investigation into a violent public assault of a reporter by supporters of President Adama Barrow, a police source told AFP Wednesday. Journalist Kebba Jeffang was...
Journalists in The Gambia on Tuesday urged the country's new leadership to uphold their pledge to respect media freedom after a violent public assault on a reporter by President Adama Barrow's...
Gambian President Adama Barrow has allowed six soldiers convicted of plotting a coup against former leader Yahya Jammeh back into the armed forces, a military source told AFP Saturday. Jammeh...
The Gambian parliament on Tuesday scrapped the constitutional age limit on presidential election candidates after new President Adama Barrow faced questions over his deputy's eligibility due to her...
When Gambian intelligence officers arrested journalist Ebrima Manneh at his newspaper, he asked an office guard to save some tea. "I'm coming right back," he said, according to colleague Alhagie...
Fifty Ghanaian troops will continue to be stationed at The Gambia as a stabilisation force, says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Ghana originally deployed 208 troops to take part in the first...
Dozens of opposition supporters in the Gambia have been arrested by police in the western town of Kafenda – a stronghold of the former leader, Yahya Jammeh, an opposition spokesperson and former...
The Gambia has formally sworn in its new elected President, Adama Barrow, in front of a crowd of thousands including African heads of state. It was the second time he had taken the oath after his...
The Ghana 2017 Budget will be unveiled on the 2nd of March. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians that the 2017 budget will be one that will facilitate the process of bringing...
Former President John Mahama has said the official swearing in ceremony of The Gambia President, Adama Barrow held on Saturday marks a "new dawn in West Africa." The former Ghanaian leader, who was...
