The Latest Breaking News from Gambia

The incident is one of the deadliest in recent years

The practice was banned a decade ago but authorities are struggling to clamp down on culprits.

The UN estimates that about 75 per cent of women in Gambia have been subjected to the procedure known as FGM

Women across west Africa have a life expectancy of 59. In a rare project, Sylvia Arthur set out to give voice to those who have lived beyond expectation, whose experiences have been largely overlooked

Gambian fishermen are watching their future disappear. Their catches are shrinking, their costs are climbing and their boats are increasingly idle. Much of the fish they once relied on is now hauled away by foreign trawlers – not to feed people, but to fatten farmed salmon, seabream and seabass in…

Fatou Tamba is currently being held at an immigration removal centre where her mental health has deteriorated

A former soldier from Gambia has been convicted of charges of torturing suspected backers of a failed coup against the West African country’s longtime dictator decades ago

An ex-military officer in Gambia and others have testified this week against a man on federal trial, accused of conspiring to torture opponents of the West Africa nation's longtime dictator

Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the U.S. trial of a man accused of torturing political opponents of Gambia’s ex-military dictator Yahya Jammeh nearly 20 years ago