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Young people understand social media dynamics, peer-to-peer communication and community mobilisation in ways that can be used improve health services. Photo: Bulungula Incubator
AFRICA

In the time of aid cuts, decentralise women’s health funding

Women and young people don’t need foreign experts to tell them what their communities need; they need resources and support to implement locally developed and relevant solutions

  • Hauwa Ojeifo
4 min read
A photograph shows collected cough syrups in Banjul on October 06, 2022. – Indian authorities are investigating cough syrups made by a local pharmaceutical company after the World Health Organisation said they could be responsible for the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia. (Photo by MILAN BERCKMANS / AFP) (Photo by MILAN BERCKMANS/AFP via Getty Images)
ATLANTIC PHARMACEUTICALS

Gambia trial opens over children’s cough syrup deaths

The death of about 70 children in 2022 led to a national outcry

  • Afp
3 min read
Temperatures being recorded in some parts of South Africa are already close to the limits at which humans can survive
ADELLE THOMAS

Climate science’s blind spot for heat waves in southern Africa

The lack of detailed information on extreme heat impacts hinders disaster response and preparedness.

  • Bob Berwyn
7 min read
Pastoralist: A Hausa-Fulani boy watching his cattle graze in Sokoto state, Nigeria. (Luis Tato/AFP)
A SELECTION OF AFRICAN POETRY

Reading List: Dionne Searcey

The author and journalist shares a reading list from her time as The New York Times bureau chief for West Africa

  • Dionne Searcey
4 min read
Myanmar’s leaders, including Nobel laureate and de facto head of state Aung San Suu Kyi, have repeatedly defended the military crackdown. (AFP)
ABUBACARR TAMBADOU

Why the Gambia’s plea for the Rohingya matters for international justice

In early December, the International Court of Justice heard arguments filed by the Gambia against Myanmar for violations of the Genocide Convention. This included a request for…

  • Line Engbo Gissel
  • Kerstin Carlson
4 min read
Gambian President Adama Barrow. (Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)
ADAMA BARROW

Gambians get behind a movement to Barrow to his word

The constitution puts him on fairly firm ground but citizens of post-dictatorship Gambia are determined to hold their leader to account

  • Staff Reporter
  • Benita Van Eyssen
6 min read
Three women have accused Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, of rape and sexual assault while he was in office. (Getty Images)
GAMBIA
Video

Former Gambian dictator Jammeh was a ‘serial sexual predator’

Former president Yahya Jammeh allegedly used his position to rape and sexually assault young women, claims new report

  • Simon Allison
4 min read
A truth commission in Gambia has begun investigating alleged rights abuses committed during the 22-year regime of Yahya Jammeh. (Getty)
GAMBIA

Gambia truth commission starts to address Jammeh-era rights abuses

A truth and reconciliation commission has begun to investigate alleged rights abuses during the 22-year-long rule of Yahya Jammeh

  • Deutsche Welle 1
2 min read
The Gambian court case is the first to hold an African head of state accountable for violating the rights of people living with HIV.
AIDS
Audio

‘No sex, no coffee, no ARVs’: Former president’s quackery could land him in court

Former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh will be the first African head of state to be tried for violating the rights of HIV-positive people.

  • Adri Kotze
8 min read
It can be a hallelujah moment now, but it could also be a moment to realise that the hard work starts now.
EVAN MAWARIRE

The flame of justice flickers on

A new breed of African freedom fighter is emerging, challenging authoritarianism with pure ideas that seek nothing but progress through liberty

  • Evan Mawarire 2
6 min read
President Adama Barrow faces the immense task of mending the mess he inherited from his predecessor
ADAMA BARROW

The Gambia’s post-election blues

Seldom has an election given rise to so much hope on the African continent as the one that placed Adama Barrow at the helm of the Gambia.

  • Deutsche Welle 1
3 min read
President Adama Barrow faces the immense task of mending the mess he inherited from his predecessor
THE GAMBIA

Cleaning up the tyrant’s mess

After forcing out Jammeh, The Gambia must fix what he broke

  • Simon Allison
7 min read
Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow
ADAMA BARROW

Who will follow Ecowas’s example next?

The Gambia, mirroring Burkina Faso in 2014, underscores the importance the youth play in overthrowing authoritarian leaders through democratic means.

  • Staff Reporter
9 min read
Brown said an additional candidate
THE GAMBIA

Five things to know about the Gambia

Here are five things to know about the small West African nation.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Deaths in detention heighten Gambians’ distress

Barely 24 hours after opposition leader’s arrest he was reportedly in a coma and without medical attention.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Brown said an additional candidate
AFRICAN UNION

Doublespeak in country of the abused

The Gambia’s justice minister is to talk about human rights at the Pan-African Parliament.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia.
GAMBIA

Scepticism greets the Gambia’s Islamic republic status

Commenters think Jammeh is looking towards the Arab world as substitute for and source of development aid.

  • Guardian Reporter
  • Guardian Mail
2 min read
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Accusations of ‘state-sponsored’ homophobic arrests in the Gambia

Amnesty International is accusing the Gambia of beating and torturing homosexuals in jail to give up names of others and admit to their "crime".

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
BBC

Archbishop: HIV-infected condoms sent to kill Africans

Mozambique’s Roman Catholic archbishop has accused European condom manufacturers of deliberately infecting their products with HIV ”in order to finish quickly the African…

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read