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A court martial in The Gambia has jailed eight former soldiers for plotting to overthrow Gambia’s president Adama Barrow in 2017 with the help of his ousted predecessor..... Read more via P.M. News – http://bit.ly/2YKOCe6 Get more World News

The Gambian government had declared on Wednesday a status of food insecurity and called on global partners to swiftly respond with support. A statement from the Vice President’s office read stated that assessment had shown a failure of 2018 cropping season across the … Read more via PM NEWS...

Two of Gambian former strongman Yahya Jammeh’s key ministers got back their former jobs in a sweeping reshuffle, the president’s office said Saturday. Eight ministries changed hands in the first major... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2KzE1iA Get more World News

Nigeria’s female national football team, the Super Falcons, were victims of robbery attack in their camp in The Gambia as thieves reportedly invaded their base in that country. read more via The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2JipJ29 --------------- Get More Nigeria Sports News

A paramilitary unit controlled by then-Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh, summarily executed more than 50 Ghanaian, Nigerian, and other...... Read more via Sahara Reporters News – https://ift.tt/2KAzokH Get more World News

Gambia is selling several planes and a fleet of luxury cars bought by former President Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce a mountain of crippling debt contracted during the authoritarian leader’s decades-long rule. Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2G9EJNC Get more...

Ten members of Gambia’s former spy agency have been detained on suspicion of murdering a political activist who led a protest during ousted strongman Yahya Jammeh’s rule, police said Tuesday. Solo Sandeng, organising secretary of the United Democratic Party, was arrested in April 2016 for...

Military authorities in Gambia arrested two of ex-strongman Yahya Jammeh’s generals after they returned unexpectedly from exile over the weekend, the army said. Gambia’s current President, Adama Barrow, was sworn in February 18, 2017 as a West African regional intervention force closed in on the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed disappointment that leaders of the Economic Community of West African States had to use ‘strong-arm tactics’ to get former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh out of office. Jammeh, who re-contested Gambia’s presidential election on Dec. 1, 2016, had refused...

The President of Gambia, Adama Barrow, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria as a whole for the support given to his country. President Barrow who arrived Abuja today, the nation’s capital made this known at a brief meeting held with Buhari. Barrow further thanked President...

Intelligence report by the Gambian army hints about a possible threat to the life of President Adama Barrow. The threat is allegedly inked to army deserters who are thought to be close to former President Yahya Jammeh who left the country in January following elections that ended his 22 years in...

Supporters of exiled former leader of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh staged protest against ECOMIG military presence and occupying of the ex-president’s home. The Gambia’s Interior Minister Mai Ahmad Fatty in his late night televised statement on Saturday condemned the deadly riot that took place...

Former Gambian President Yahaya Jammeh has landed in trouble after it was discovered that he stole $50m before he left the country in January. The amount was initially suggested to be more than $11m (£8.8m) by Interior Minister Mai Ahmad Fatty then an aide to new President Adam Barrow. But on...

Aide de camp to Former Gambian dictator, Yahya Jammeh, Major Khalifa Bajinka, has been announced dead in the United States. Bajinka died on Monday at a Boston Medical Hospital late Monday. He was said to have lost consciousness amid serious chronic pneumonia, which led to his death. Gambians...

President Adama Barrow of The Gambia has appointed and sworn in six new judges to top courts Monday, with Gambians dominating the list in a country that long relied on foreign justices under the former regime. Chief Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow said the four appointed to the Supreme Court and...

The former governor of the Central Bank of the Gambia, Amadou Colley has reacted to his unceremonial removal by the government. Colley was sacked on Tuesday by President Adama Barrow after six years in the top job. He was removed together with his deputies Basiru Njai and Oumie Savage-Samba...

The new government in The Gambia led by President Adama Barrow has been accused of condoning and benefiting from the illegal collection of stolen monies from Gamtel’s international gateway, through the exorbitant international call termination fees imposed on callers by greedy phone carriers...

Gambians have begun voting for members of their one-chamber parliament in the the first polls since Yahya Jammeh left power after more than 22 years. Under Mr Jammeh, the National Assembly was frequently ignored as the president enacted executive decrees without consultation. Expectations...