IN BRIEFING TO SECURITY COUNCIL, U.N. ENVOY SAYS WILL SUPPORT NATION-BUILDING AND SMOOTH TRANSFER OF POWER IN THE GAMBIA Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), briefed the Security Council this morning ...

Tomorrow (25 January), Council members are expected to receive a briefing from Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) via video-teleconference. The meeting has been organised as a follow-up to resolution 22...

Video by Patrick FANDIO , Marie DEMARQUE , Tristan LE PAIH Text by FRANCE 24 Latest update : 2017-01-25 Refugees have been streaming back into Gambia since the departure on Saturday of strongman Yahya Jammeh, who finally bowed to international pressure to accept his election defeat. In the...

Published: 25 January 2017 8:31 CET By Moustapha Diallo, IFRC Hasinatu Camara’s baby boy is crying incessantly. He is certainly hungry. Camara frantically rummages through her skilfully tied up pieces of luggage, to reach for her baby’s food. Camara is one of the 95 refugees staying in a h...

2017-01-25 06:54 Dakar - At least 8 000 Gambians who fled the country have returned since strongman Yahya Jammeh went into exile after being threatened with regional military intervention, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday. Political outsider and businessman Adama Barrow won a December el...

Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Thousands of Gambians and other nationals that fled The Gambia at the height of the political impasse have started to return since Sunday. At least 45,000 people had fled from The Gambia to Senegal, according to United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR. One of the return...

Considering its population of less than two million, The Gambia accounts for a high proportion of those crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. The BBC's Alastair Leithead asks whether the new president can change this. In a tiny shop unit along a dark corridor and through a narrow alleyw...

25 janvier 2017 à 11h33min Dakar, 25 jan (APS) - Au total plus de 7900 réfugiés gambiens ont traversé entre samedi et lundi dernier le point de passage frontière de Selety (région de Ziguinchor) pour rentrer chez eux a appris l’APS, mercredi. 530 réfugiés gambiens ont franchi la frontière s...

30 January 2017 – In his first address to the African Union since taking office, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today underscored the importance of a strategic AU-UN partnership for building sustainable development and advancing peace and security on the continent. Speaking in ...

(JollofNews) – The Gambian Government and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) Friday signed a US$6.2 million (equivalent to D283, 604,855.60) project agreement designed to reduce the impacts of climate variability and change in the Gambia’s agriculture and livestock sec...