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Gambia has discovered a mass grave at military site, Foni Kanilai, hometown of exiled Dictator Yahya Jammeh, where freedom fighters are buried, bodies found include US captain Njaga Jagne. The Police, Crime and Forensic department have embarked on an extensive search for ‘Secret Graves’ in a...

Members of The Gambia Bar Association, GBA, have protested against the appointment of four Nigerians as High Court judges. The newly appointed Nigerian High Court judges are Justice Edward Ogar, Justice Mathias Olusegun Agboola, Justice Simeon Abi and Justice Matins U. Okoi. In a statement...

Gambia President, Adama Barrow has been caught 'sleeping in public', during a prayer session at Kerr Mama Jallow, Freedom Newspaper report says. A source travelling with Barrow told the Gambia news platform that Barrow, seems to have lost the euphoric exuberance with which he campaigned and...

Samsideen Jatta, a night hunter of Busura village in Gambia has accidentally shot Mamud Sey, a baker to death – he told the police he mistook the man for a wild animal. The baker was reportedly shot to death while he was burning charcoal in the bush between the hours of 1 and 2 a.m. in Busura...

The government of Adama Barrow has reformed the Gambia’s electoral laws barely two months to the National Assembly elections. The new laws, according to Gambia SMBCO received the blessings of the APRC lawmakers reduced the deposit for people contesting National Assembly elections from D50,000...

Gambian President Adama Barrow has sacked the country's head of armed forces, Gen Ousman Badjie. BBC reports that General Badjie has reportedly been replaced by his predecessor General Masanneh Kinteh. Gen Badjie declared his loyalty to the former President Yahya Jammeh after December's...

Gambian police have arrested ex-president Yahya Jammeh’s dreaded former spy chief. A police source told AFP on Tuesday. Yankuba Badjie headed the National Intelligence Agency, which rights groups say carried out arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances and torture during Jammeh’s 22-year...

African leaders are currently at the Independence Stadium in Banju, the Gambia capital to celebrate the inauguration of President Adama Barrow in the country. Barrow will be sworn-in by the new Chief Justice, Justice Hassan Jallow. Barrow was initially sworn in on January 16 at the Gambian...

Yahaya Jammeh's picture has surfaced online after a month he flew the small West Africa nation where he ruled for 22 years to cede power to President Adama Barrow and end a political crisis. He landed in Conakry, Guinea's capital but set off again for Equatorial Guinea, where he has remain in...

The Gambia is to rejoin The Commonwealth within months - after four years outside the group of 52 states. The Gambian government withdrew in 2013 under its then leader Yahya Jammeh, who called it a “neo-colonial institution”. But Adama Barrow, who was sworn in as president in January, lived in...

Gambian President Adama Barrow said he has inherited a nearly bankrupt economy and that the economy needed immediate restoration. He has appealed for support, especially from the European Union (EU). President Barrow was speaking in Banjul at the signing ceremony of $79 million immediate...

Gambian President Adama Barrow has reiterated his pre-election promise that the country will not pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC), reversing the decision of his predecessor Yahya Jammeh who had denounced it as the "International Caucasian Court for the persecution and...

President Adama Barrow has been hit by its first major scandal with the age controversy swirling around Mrs. Fatoumata Tambajang, was named the country’s Vice President on 24 January. She is waiting to be sworn in. Freedomnewspaper.com, an influential online publication in the country...

Gambia's new president, Adama Barrow has scrapped the four-day week policy introduced by his predecessor Yahya Jammeh. In a statement Adama Barrow said that public sector employees would now have to work a half-day on Fridays too. Four years ago, Mr Jammeh had said the country's mainly...

About two hundred of the Nigerian Air Force personnel sent for peace keeping in Banjul, The Gambia, are back home, after what they called a successful campaign in the country. The officers and men who arrived at about 6:30 on Thursday evening, were the first batch of troops to be brought back...

Senegalese forces continue to make arrests of former Yahya Jammeh loyalists in The Gambia’s security set up as the former President left most of them stranded at the Guinea Conakry. The latest being four guards assigned to Jammeh’s wife, Zineb Souma Jammeh, who were arrested while trying to...

West African forces have arrested the head of an elite commnando unit of the Gambian army, General Bora Colley, force commander Francois Ndiaye said. Bora Colley was arrested in neighbouring Senegal. Ndiaye also mentioned the arrest of four members of Jammeh’s bodyguards who had accompanied him...

The ECOWAS Mission in The Gambia (ECOMIG) has seized weapons and ammunition from the private home of exiled former President Yahya Jammeh in his hometown in the west of the country. The commander of the joint mission, General François Ndiaye announced the seizure on Monday without specifying...

President Adama Barrow may not be ruling The Gamba from The State House in Banjul until it is declared safe. Barrow has not been given an all clear to head to the Gambia’s presidential compound, which is also the official seat of the government. A credible threat to Mr. Barrow’s life has been...

Unprecedented crowd greeted the city of Banjul on Thursday night as Gambian President Adama Barrow returned to govern the people of the small West African country after taking exile in Senegal over Yahya Jammeh's refusal to leave office. President Barrow's plane landed at Banjul airport where...