On Wednesday, Gambia's attorney general said he saluted ... torture and arbitrary detention. As president, Jammeh crafted a religious persona and claimed to cure the sick. He reluctantly gave ...

“The Supreme Court injunction cannot extend the term of a president,” said Aziz Bensouda, the secretary-general of the Gambia Bar Association. He said the courts can consider Jammeh’s ...

By Saikou Jammeh and Ruth Maclean BANJUL, Gambia — Many of the Gambian citizens who testified in recent years that their former president was responsible for a wide range of atrocities never ...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Friday rejected the results of the December 1 election and called for his country to vote again – a week after initially accepting his defeat. Jammeh ...

A giant billboard celebrating the long regime of Gambia President Yahya Jammeh sits on an empty street in Banjul, Gambia, after a failed coup attempt in 2014. Popular protests since April 2016 ...

Despite mounting public frustration, the Ministry of Justice has only provided a fragmented list, raising suspicions of ...

A largely peaceful election day in Gambia on December 1 portended a seismic power shift, with voters choosing to oust incumbent President Yahya Jammeh after 22 years under his rule. Perhaps even ...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has said he is "ready to die" in regard of his intention to remain in office, setting himself on a war footing with West African leaders who have called upon him to ...

BANJUL, Gambia | It was an auspicious — and ... But in the past few days, President Yahya Jammeh reversed himself, rejected the results of the election and said he would demand a do-over.

MUNICH/BANJUL, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A German court on Thursday sentenced a driver in the elite guard of former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh to life in prison for crimes against humanity ...

Three women have accused Gambia's ex-president, Yahya Jammeh, of carrying out a series of rapes and sexual assaults while in power, according to Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International ...