Dictator Yahya Jammeh lost elections but may not concede presidency on Thursday Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 17:03 Updated: Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 17:23 Business is booming at Bundung bus station. Men, women and children pile into a battered minibus, while suitcases, flour sacks and a bicycle are hurriedly ...

Resolution passed by the National Assembly allows Jammeh to stay in power for three more months, state media says. The Gambia's National Assembly has adopted a resolution to allow President Yahya Jammeh to stay in power for three more months, starting from Wednesday, according to state television...

Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Tobi Soniyi, Paul Obi in Abuja and Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri Tuesday was another day of tragedy for Borno State as a Nigerian Airforce fighter jet mistakenly dropped bombs on some settlements, believed to also harbour Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs), in Rann, Kala Balg...

Nigeria - IOM has built mental health resource centres in nine locations across northeastern Nigeria to assist and support thousands of people who have fled the Boko Haram insurgency, and the local communities who are hosting them. The centres are part of IOM’s Mental Health and Psychosocial Supp...

YANGON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The state-owned Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) will be reformed into public service media, Myanmar News Agency quoted Minister of Information U Pe Myint as reporting Thursday. Plans are being laid down for such transformation, said Pe Myint, calling on MRTV staff ...

Senegal has moved troops towards the Gambian border in an effort to force President Yahya Jammeh to accept electoral defeat and step down. Senegal is leading the operation, which is supported by Nigeria and other states in the region. Mr Jammeh has been told to leave office by the end of Wedne...

Par RFI Publié le 19-01-2017 Modifié le 19-01-2017 à 05:03 La négociation de la dernière chance - celle du président mauritanien - a visiblement échoué. Yahya Jammeh campe sur ses positions et refuse toujours de quitter le pouvoir alors que son mandat s’est terminé à minuit. Une situation qui emp...

by Reuters Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:46 GMT ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal, Jan 18 (Reuters) - At least 26,000 people have fled Gambia into Senegal fearing President Yahya Jammeh's decision to stay in power after losing an election in December could spark unrest, the United Nations said on Wednesday, c...

The President-elect of The Gambia has invited all to his inauguration as the President of of the country. Barrow said this in a tweet on Thursday that the inauguration would be holding at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, the Senegalese capital. Barrow had fled in the week to Senegal after Yahya Ja...

L'attentat suicide visant l'armée et des combattants de groupes armés signataires de l'accord de paix au Mali, avait fait hier à Gao près de 60 morts et 115 blessés, selon le dernier bilan du gouvernement, alors que le porte-parole de l'Etat-major français évoque 77 morts. Le président IBK, qui a dé...