UNITED NATIONS — Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who lost elections last month, has until midday Friday to hand over power and agree to leave the country or face military action, the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said in a statement. “We have suspended operations and...

Experts from within West Africa and outside are meeting in The Gambia to review a draft 8-year Plan of Action which set forth concrete measures to end statelessness in the sub-region by the year 2024. The Plan of Action is developed in line with the Abidjan Declaration adopted by the 15 ECOWAS me...

Written by Sam Phatey on January 17, 2017 Troops from West African nations will be escorting the Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow into the small nation to be sworn-in as its president. Incumbent President Yahya Jammeh was defeated in the polls but refusing to step down. His refusal to ced...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has a adopted strategies to eradicate statelessness in the sub-region by 2024. During a 3-day ministerial conference that began on Monday in Gambia’s capital Banjul, experts from the bloc’s 15 member states resolved to finalize a plan of acti...

A delegation of ECOWAS leaders is due in The Gambia today, in respect of the initial planned visit on Wednesday 11 January. The decision was taken at a one-day ECOWAS summit held recently in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The delegation includes Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, Liberia’s P...

A população e «filhos» da vila de Bigene residentes fora da Guiné-Bissau estão a contribuir para a construção de um hospital na localidade e que vai servir cerca de 160 mil pessoas no norte do país. Ibu Camará, presidente da Afaibu (Associação de Filhos e Amigos de Bigene) disse à agência Lusa que...

Gambia's former President Yahya Jammeh has left the country in the wake of elections that ousted him after 22 years in power. He boarded a plane to Guinea and from there will travel on to exile in Equatorial Guinea, regional group Ecowas says. Mr Jammeh was defeated in December's election by A...

O Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI) promete retomar a cooperação com o Governo da Guiné-Bissau se até Dezembro Bissau executar uma série de compromissos a nível da gestão das finanças públicas. Para já o FMI dá nota positiva ao desempenho do governo guineense, nomeadamente, pela melhoria substa...