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Gambia’s ex-dictator Jammeh reportedly wants to come home

By ABDOULIE JOHN - Associated Press

In Gambia, heartache and few answers after migrant deaths

By ABDOULIE JOHN - Associated Press

A man looks through newspapers with front pages leading with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice hearing, near a roadside journal shop Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in Yangon, Myanmar. Suu Kyi testified to the court that the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to neighboring Bangladesh was the unfortunate result of a battle with insurgents. She denied that the army had killed civilians, raped women and torched houses. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Myanmar’s accusers slam Nobel laureate for genocide defense

By ALEKS FURTULA - Associated Press

Map shows location of Mauritanian city where survivors of a capsized boat are being treated. (Associated Press)

58 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania

By Ahmed Mohamed Salem, Carley Petesch and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Gambia truth hearings grip nation as past atrocities emerge

By ABDOULIE JOHN and CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Gambia’s 1st president, Dawda Jawara, dies at 95

Associated Press

Inquiry into Gambia’s ex-president submits findings report

By ABDOULIE JOHN - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Jan. 21, 2019, Senegal's President Macky Sall, center left, and Gambian President Adama Barrow, center right, drive past a newly inaugurated bridge in Banjul, Gambia. The leaders of Senegal and Gambia have cut the ribbon on a project that was decades in the making, a bridge that links the north and south banks of the Gambia River and ties the neighbors closer together. A boom in trade is expected for this part of West Africa. (AP Photo )

Gambia and Senegal finally inaugurate connecting bridge

By ABDOULIE JOHN - Associated Press

FILE- In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, file photo, a man rides his bicycle past graffiti on a wall in Banjul, Gambia. Journalists in Gambia have launched a self-regulatory body that they hope will offer legitimacy, and far more freedom, to media emerging from a dictatorship that ruled the tiny West African nation for more than two decades. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui, File)

Gambia’s journalists, free from dictator, work to win trust

By AMELIA NIERENBERG - Associated Press

Wilitha Jarju holds a photo of her husband at their home in Vancouver on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. After living in the U.S. for 17 years, Wilitha Jarju's husband Gibril Jarju was taken from their home by ICE on Feb. 23 and transported back to Gambia. Now, Wilitha Jarju said, the family is trying to carry on while working to bring him back. (Alisha Jucevic/The Columbian via AP)

Vancouver family struggles after husband and father deported

By ANDY MATARRESE - Associated Press

US denies visas to Gambia teens in global robotics contest

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Gambia's defeated leader Yahya Jammeh departs at Banjul airport Saturday Jan. 21, 2017. Jammeh announced early Saturday he has decided to relinquish power, after hours of last-ditch talks with regional leaders and the threat by a regional military force to make him leave. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Gambia awaits new leader, but exiled one has right to return

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Local children watch Senegal soldiers providing security to their local gathering point at the Gambia border with Senegal at the town of Karang, Senegal, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Gambia's defeated President Yahya Jammeh must cede power by noon Friday or he will be dislodged by a regional force that has already moved into the country, West African officials said. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Gambia’s defense chief supports new president

By CARLEY PETESCH and BABACAR DIONE - Associated Press

Tourists lay on the beach in Gambia's capital Banjul Tuesday Jan. 17, 2017. Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency just two days before he is supposed to cede power after losing elections last month to President-elect Adama Barrow in the December 2016 election. Barrow is vowing to take power Thursday Jan. 19, despite Jammeh's refusal to leave. (AP Photo)

Regional troops move toward Gambia amid political standoff

By Abdoulie John - Associated Press

A woman looks down an empty street in Banjul, in Gambia, Wednesday Jan. 18, 2017. Special flights were being organized Wednesday to evacuate British and other tourists from Gambia, where the threat of a regional military intervention loomed as President Yahya Jammeh's mandate expires on Thursday after he lost elections in December. On Tuesday, he declared a state of emergency before he is supposed to cede power to President-elect Adama Barrow. (AP Photo)

AP Explains: The African leader who refuses to leave

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Refugee hopes to spark free press in Gambia

Associated Press

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has called for all African Union members to quit the court en masse. (Associated Press)

International Criminal Court ‘crumbling’ as defections put legitimacy, viability in doubt

By Patrick Costello - Special to The Washington Times

The tiny West African nation of The Gambia has refused to take back nearly 2,000 deportees from the U.S., which led to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refusing to grant some Gambians visas to visit the U.S. (Associated Press)

Gambia refuses to accept 2,000 people the U.S. trying to deport

The Washington Times

Jeh Johnson, who served as homeland security secretary from late 2013 through the end of the Obama administration, said he began to receive reports of attempted hacks of state elections systems in August, about the time the FBI issued a public warning. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. strips visas from Gambian govt.; punishment for stopping DHS deportations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, file photo, Gambia's President Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters. Gambia accused European countries of &quot;racist and inhuman behavior&quot; for deliberately causing boats carrying black African migrants to sink. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

White House chides Gambian president over anti-gay remarks

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times