BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has dissolved his entire cabinet two months after securing re-election for a new five-year term, state broadcaster GRTS announced on Thursday. The brief announcement did not say why Jammeh had taken the decision or when the cabinet would be replaced. It said the president had commended his ministers for their patriotism and hard work. ...

“We know what human rights are. Human beings of the same sex cannot marry or date,” President Yahya Jammeh said recently.

Sukai Jack, 31, says she was arrested in Gambia after delivering letters which allegedly contained information about a government coup. She claims she had no knowledge of what was inside the letters and was just doing a job.

A court in Gambia on Monday sentenced a former information minister, who is also a US national, to life in prison for plotting to overthrow the government of President Yahya Jammeh.

Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh vowed ahead of his swearing-in for a fourth term Thursday to clamp down on lazy workers, eradicate corruption and turn his tiny country into an economic superpower.

( Public Library of Science ) Grant MacKenzie of the MRC Unit in the Gambia and colleagues describe in this week's PLoS Medicine how they set up a population-based surveillance system to assess the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on invasive pneumococcal disease and radiological pneumonia in children in the Gambia.

Gambia's government says President Yahya Jammeh has withdrawn his bid to chair the African Union amid protests from civil society groups.

[Daily Observer] The President of the Republic of The Gambia, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has effected two more cabinet appointments with effect from yesterday, Tuesday, February 7th, 2012.A media release from State House revealed thatFatim Badjie has been appointed as the minister of Health and Social Welfare andKebba S Touray as the new minister of Trade, Regional ...

RFI (Paris)-Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has pulled out of the race for the presidency of the African Union's Assembly, Gambia's foreign minister told RFI on Thursday. This leaves Benin's President Boni Yayi the likely winner of the rotating one-year term.

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) - Gambia's High Court has sentenced the former information minister to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the ruler of 17 years with T-shirts demanding an end to dictatorship.