(Bloomberg) -- Gambian lawmakers have passed two new bills that could see former dictator Yahya Jammeh tried locally for crimes committed during his 22-year rule of the West African country. The bills ...

BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a government minister convicted of killing the finance minister to life in prison, one of few to be convicted of crimes ...

A former member of a Gambian death squad suspected of shooting AFP's correspondent in the west African country in 2004 was ...

The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the West Africa sub-regional bloc ECOWAS approved the establishment of a “Special Tribunal for The Gambia” to prosecute crimes against humanity, ...

MUNICH/BANJUL, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A German court on Thursday sentenced a driver in the elite guard of former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh to life in prison for crimes against humanity, murder and ...

Michael Sang Correa faces seven torture-related counts for his involvement in the investigation of an unsuccessful 2006 coup attempt against then-President Yahya Jammeh in The Gambia. Correa was ...

Switzerland’s top criminal court convicted former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko of crimes against humanity. Sonko has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in repression under ...

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has halted the executions of prisoners on death row, at least for now. Jammeh issued a statement Saturday saying that he suspended the imminent ...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the deaths of African migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean by boat to Europe. Nearly 2,000 ...

BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on Tuesday called homosexuals "vermin" and said his government would tackle them in the same way it fights malaria-causing mosquitoes. The latest ...