Efforts to stamp out polio in The Gambia are being met with scepticism linked to distrust of Covid-19 vaccines, according to a medical worker in the West African state (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Gambians react before heading to the polls on December 4 to pick a president, in the poor West African country's first elections since ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile nearly five years ago (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Gambia's electoral commission announces the preliminary results in the country's presidential elections, in which incumbent President Adama Barrow is leading (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Separatist rebels from Senegal's southern Casamance region hand over seven recently captured Senegalese soldiers in The Gambia (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

FILE IMAGES of a Senegalese military operation in Casamance, a region in the south bordering Gambia, as the army launches a military operation against rebels (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Five former members of the Gambian intelligence service leave the High Court in Banjul by bus after being sentenced to death for the murder of a political activist during the rule of former dictator Yahya Jammeh (Footage by AFPTV via...

"It is a big loss to the entire world": Gambian President Adama Barrow expresses his condolences to the British High Commissioner in Banjul and signs the condolence book for Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday at the age of 96...

File images of the suspect cough syrups in Gambia, which has led to the shutting down of the Indian factory that produced them (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The newly appointed national security adviser, Abubakarr Suleiman Jeng, speaks to gathered members of the press about the gambian government's response to an "unearthed coup plot (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Our democracy needs to be matured, it needs to be sustained and it needs to also resist taking us back into autocracy,' says Essa Njie political science lecturer at the University of The Gambia after the government said it had thwarted a...

A Gambian parliamentary committee recommends banning and prosecuting an Indian pharmaceutical company over the deaths of at least 70 children from acute kidney failure (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)