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Lawmakers in Gambia have referred a repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions.

Gambia’s government is setting up a special prosecutor’s office to investigate for severe human rights violations and potentially charge former dictator Yahya Jammeh, who fled into exile in 2017 after 22 years in power.

Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has secured his re-election with a comfortable margin over his opposition in a vote that set the bar for a new chapter in the small West African nation’s democracy.

Election officials in the West African nation of Gambia have started counting marble votes after polls closed for the first presidential election in decades that does not include former dictator Yahya Jammeh as a candidate.

Gambians are getting ready to vote in a historic election that won't have former dictator Yahya Jammeh on the ballot.

West African leaders have suspended Mali from their regional bloc over what they say amounted to a coup last week.