Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Omar Touray, president of the ECOWAS Commission, left, Gambia's President Adama Barrow, center and Nigeria Minister of Foreign ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- After more than two decades in power, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh faced the prospect of a military intervention by regional forces, as the man who once pledged to rule the West ...

SERREKUNDA, Gambia — West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday approved setting up a special court to try crimes committed in Gambia during its military dictatorship. The landmark decision was ...