The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor requested the investigation following repeated allegations of persecution and ethnic cleansing.

Dawda A. Jallow, Gambian Minister of Justice, passes on to government and security officials the report by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission which probes abuses allegedly committed during the rule of former leader...

Separatist rebels from Senegal's southern Casamance region hand over seven Senegalese soldiers whom they captured three weeks ago, demanding nothing in return (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

CLEAN : Protest in Dakar against Gambia rights abuses

As the rebel slave who defied his captors Kunta Kinte immortalised in print and on screen in Roots put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism

English/Nat Scientists in Oxford, England, say they've made a major breakthrough in the search for a vaccine to prevent AIDS. They say research involving a group of West African prostitutes has produced evidence the body can fight the...

The death toll from Ebola will rise this week to more than 4,500 people among the nine-thousand infected, and the outbreak is still out of control in three West African nations, a top official with the UN health agency said on...

Visitors to Gambia's sacred crocodile pools include infertile women looking for a cure businessmen hoping for better fortune and parents wanting to protect their children during circumcision ceremonies

CLEAN : Death penalty progress but some worrying

CLEAN: The British Foreign Office has advised against all but essential travel to Gambia, based upon the risk of political unrest. Gambia's President-elect, Adam Barrow, a former security guard at Argos, has said he will be inaugurated...

Speaking outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague Gambia's Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou said that there was compelling evidence of genocide and genocidal intent by Myanamr against Rohingya Muslims (Footage by AFPTV...

Twenty years later, the memory of the sinking of the Senegalese ferry Joola is still vivid in the southern city of Ziguinchor (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Coloured metal urns sawdust sieves and marble counting boards Gambia's polling agents prepare for the presidential election on Thursday

Spokesman for the coalition Halifa Sallah warns that people who refuse obedience allegiance or adherence to the authority become rebels in Banjul during his press conference

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says that no protests would be permitted after a two week electoral campaign as rallies in favour of opposition leader Adama Barrow reached boiling point in the capital Banjul

Political veteran Ousainou Darboe, considered by observers to be the leading opposition candidate in The Gambia's presidential election, casts his vote (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The Gambian justice minister says during a press conference that the government is willing to prosecute former dictator Yahya Jammeh for a "myriad of crimes" committed by the regime during his more than 20-year rule (Footage by AFPTV via...

Mali and Gambia's national football teams are given a military escort as they arrive at their team hotel in Buea ahead of the start of the Africa Cup of Nations (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

"The Gambia suffered from the colonial rule," says Hassoum Ceesay, the director of the Gambian National Museum, as he reflects on the nation's history during its colonial era (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

20 years ago, Nadine Verschatse's daughter disappeared in one of the worst maritime accidents in history: the ferry Joola linking Casamance to Dakar sank off the coast of Gambia, killing 1863 people, according to the official count...

Kisumu, Kenya 1. Wide of Barack Obama's uncle, Said Obama entering hotel in Kisumu to meet family members 2. Obama meeting other family members in hotel 3. Obama talking on mobile phone 4. Close-up of television showing news story about...

Dakar 1. Wide shots of Air Force One taxiing on tarmac 2. US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush disembarking 3. Cutaway of official cars 4. Various shots of Bush greeting Senegalese officials Dakar 5. Bush and...

CLEAN : Gambia tightens noose on dissenters: Amnesty

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