Gambian citizens did not get to witness first-hand one of the most important democratic transitions in their country. Adama Barrow, who defeated the country’s longtime leader Yahya Jammeh at the ...

DAKAR, Senegal— A West African regional force charged into neighboring Gambia late Thursday to support the country’s newly inaugurated president, while longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh showed no ...

BANJUL, Gambia - Gambia’s government says the country’s first democratically elected president, Dawda Kairaba Jawara, has died at the age of 95.

Sir Dawda Jawara, who has died aged 95, was the Gambian politician who led the former British colony to independence in 1965 in what was ostensibly a multi-party liberal democracy.Re-elected five ...

Mathew K. Jallow discuses the legacy of Sir Dawda K Jawara, Gambia's first president: “As president, Sir Dawda Jawara was unlike most African leaders and politicians of his generation; leaders who ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Ebrima Sall hopes Thursday will be a proud day for Gambia, when President-elect Adama Barrow is slated to be inaugurated as the first new leader of the tiny West African country ...

Gambia's President Adama Barrow finally returned home Thursday, solidifying his position as the country's first new commander in chief in two decades after a political crisis that sent the ...

The meeting provided an update to the President regarding the upcoming convocation and commissioning of the USET multimillion ...