The Latest Breaking News from Gambia

A group of West African nationals deported from the United States to Ghana earlier this month have filed a lawsuit against the Ghanaian government for unlawful detention. Lawyers representing the deportees report they are still being held in a military camp near Accra, even though there are no formal charges…

Ghana has sent 14 West Africans deported from the U.S. to their home countries

A “sea war” is brewing off the West African nation of Gambia as desperate local fishermen attack foreign commercial fishing vessels, and each other

The Gambia’s post-dictatorship democratic transition recently suffered a setback. The Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia (Promulgation) Bill, 2024 failed to pass its second reading in the national assembly.

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