Gambian Film ‘House Maid’ Gets America Screening on September 26

Jallow, who starred in the Film as Cherno, said: “The film is significant because it helps society understand that house maids are not slaves and must not be treated as such.”  (Photo Credit: Zaidi Entertainment Production)

Jammeh calls ‘coup plot’ a 'terrorist attack'

Meanwhile, there have been reports of ‘dozens arrests’ including military personnel and civilians after the foiled attack, according to reports. The government is yet to confirm the arrests but the President had said Wednesday that those involved will be dealt with. (Photo Credit: EPA)

US deny involvement in Gambia coup attempt

On December 30, 2014, an armed group led by former State Guard Commander Lt. Col. Lamin Sanneh attacked the presidential palace in Banjul, the capital overnight – with heavy gunfire that lasted hours.

Gambia says never benefitted from AGOA

The U.S. National Security Council has voiced concern over Gambia's move to block access to UN human rights investigators and for enacting new laws against homosexuality.

Jammeh: Human civilization on brink of catastrophe

Jammeh addresses 68th UNGA in 2013 where he identified “homosexuality” as one of “three biggest threats to human existence.”(Photo Credit: UN/Amanda Voisard)

Jammeh calls terrorists ‘human vermin’

Jammeh had also called for a United Nations investigation into the "man-made sinking" of boats carrying African migrants to Europe. Here (photo) he addresses 68th UN General Assembly in 2013 (Photo Credit: UN/Amanda Voisard)

Ebola vaccine testing begins in US

…then U.K., Gambia and Mali

The charity Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, announced in April it is facing an unprecedented epidemic in terms of the distribution of [Ebola] cases scattered in several locations in Guinea - where the West African outbreak began.  (Photo: Kjell Gunnar Beraas/MSF)

World Cup 2014: Ghana out after internal unrest

Ghana had looked to Asamoah Gyan to deliver them but unrest within the team overshadowed their final group G fixture. The Black Stars follow Cameroon and Ivory Coast into the exit (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

World Cup 2014: Stars and stripes win black stars in group G opener

Kevin Prince Boateng blast high and wide, one of many shots off target taken by several black stars in inaccurate fashion (Photo shared by CitiFM)

‘Bad human rights record’ led to Gambia’s Commonwealth exit’

While reports link Gambia's Commonwealth exit to a New York hotel protest, the Hamat Bah-led NRP says the regime is aware of a possible backlash at  the Commonwealth summit next month and decided to pull out (Photo/SoutAfrica)

Gambian President: ‘Commonwealth withdrawal is non-negotiable’

Jammeh says the “Commonwealth remains at best a neo-colonial institution and at worst an animal farm, an idea which The Gambia will never subscribe to”. (Photo/EPA)

OJ urges Gambia to revisit Commonwealth withdrawal

The opposition leader criticised the President Jammeh-led government for not giving clear reasons of its shock withdrawal from the body usually referred to as “the Family of Nations”.

The Gambia: 'Enemies' Britain, US lying against government’

The tiny West African nation of 1.7 million has over the years grabbed international headlines over the state of human rights in the country; however, the President Yahya Jammeh-led government said (The) Gambia's human rights record since 1994 is “better than that of the United Kingdom and the United States put together”
(AP Photo/Andrew Burton,Pool)

US Ambassador Alford hails ‘vibrant’ America-Gambia relations

Speaking a day after The Gambia passes a “strict internet law”, Alford said freedom of speech and of the press played an important role in stimulating American civil rights movements.(Photo Credit: Sainey MK Marenah)

Gambia refuses to cooperate with USA in combating drug trafficking

In March, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)  says it will support illicit maritime activity in west and central Africa during a Ministerial meeting in Cotonou, Benin (Photo Credit: World Maritime News)