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This courtroom sketch provided by Robyn Cochran-Ragland shows Michael Correa, second from left, with his lawyers during his trial in federal court in Denver, Monday, April 7, 2025. (Robyn Cochran-Ragland via AP)

Gambian ex-soldier convicted at U.S. trial of torturing suspected backers of a failed 2006 coup

By Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

This photo shows the Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse in Denver on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Colleen Slevin)

Ex-member of former Gambia dictator’s military unit is on trial in the U.S. for torture

By Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

Philippe Currat, lawyer for Gambia's former Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, talks to the media after the conviction of her father, in front of the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland in Bellinzona, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Switzerland’s top criminal court has convicted Ousman Sonko for crimes against humanity over the repression by the west African country’s security forces against opponents of its longtime dictator, a legal advocacy group said Wednesday. (Maria Linda Clericetti/Keystone via AP)

A Swiss court sentences a former Gambian interior minister to 20 years for crimes against humanity

By Jamey Keaten and Abdoulie John - Associated Press

Gambian man convicted in Germany for role in killings under Gambia’s former ruler

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 file photo, Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh shows his inked finger before voting in Banjul, Gambia. Jammeh used bribe proceeds and stolen government funds to buy a mansion in a suburb of Washington, D.C., U.S. authorities allege in a lawsuit seeking to seize the property. The west African nation’s longtime dictator conspired to launder roughly $3.5 million in “corruption proceeds” through the purchase of a lavish home in Potomac, Md., the Justice Department said in a civil forfeiture complaint it filed Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

US authorities move to seize ex-Gambia dictator’s mansion

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Gambia arrests 137 in protests urging president to step down

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

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

By ABDOULIE JOHN - Associated Press

Gambia truth hearings grip nation as past atrocities emerge

By ABDOULIE JOHN and CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Inquiry into Gambia’s ex-president submits findings report

By ABDOULIE JOHN - Associated Press

US blocks ex-Gambian president, family from entering

Associated Press

Gambians file suit against ex-leader over alleged HIV ‘cure’

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Yahya Jammeh is living in exile in Equatorial Guinea after his presidential election upset, but his dark legacy still haunts the people of Gambia. (Associated Press/File)

Yahya Jammeh, former Gambia president, wanted on human rights abuse charges

By Alpha Kamara and Khadijatou Jawo - Special to The Washington Times

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

Adama Barrow is sworn in as President of Gambia at Gambia's embassy in Dakar Senegal in this image taken from TV Thursday, Jan 19, 2017. A new Gambian president has been sworn into office in neighboring Senegal, while Gambia's defeated longtime ruler refuses to step down from power, deepening a political crisis in the tiny West African country.(RTS via AP)

Senegal: Troops enter Gambia in effort to get Jammeh to go

By KRISTA LARSON 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

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

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh addresses the 68th U.N. General Assembly on Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, at the international body's headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton, Pool)

Gambian president says ‘anti-Allah’ homosexuality becoming epidemic

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times