Latest update : 2017-01-18 Senegalese troops amassed on the Gambian border Wednesday as the deadline for the country's veteran leader Yahya Jammeh to step down approaches. Jammeh, who lost a December 1 election to opponent Adama Barrow, has refused to cede power after 22 years at the helm. Ba...

SECURITY COUNCIL 7866TH MEETING (PM) SC/12688 19 JANUARY 2017 Text Asks Incumbent to Ensure Peaceful Transfer of Power in Line with Constitution The Security Council endorsed today the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union to recognize Adama ...

23 February 2017 – The United Nations Security Council today extended for another year the mandate of the UN Integrated Peace-Building Office in Guinea-Bissau, known as UNIOGBIS, and urged all political actors in the country to implement the provisions of the Conakry Agreement signed last October. ...

Sob o lema: "Dar de si antes de pensar em si". O Rotary Clube Bissau beneficiou de sessenta milhões de dólares americanos dos parceiros internacionais para a recuperação das bolanhas de Biombo, construção de um centro de maternidade em Bigene e no Hospital Nacional Simão Mendes de Bissau.Adiantou es...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission wishes to congratulate the entire Community citizens on the occasion of the maiden celebration of the ECOWAS Human Rights Day. This celebration places a particular focus on the promotion and protection of women’s rights in all its ram...

The UNHCR and ECOWAS recently signed an MoU to improve the protection environment for stateless persons. Pierre is eighteen years old. He was born to Burkinabe parents in Ghana. He was not registered at birth and neither were his parents. An orphan with no nationality, Pierre is stateless. Whi...

Joint Declaration by the Economic Community of West African States, the African Union and the United Nations on the Political Situation of the Islamic Republic of The Gambia 1.Following the Decision of the Summit of the ECOWAS Authority taken on 17th December 2016 in Abuja, Nigeria, Mediation effor...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has deployed to Senegal as part of Nigerian contingent of Economic Community of West African States Military Intervention in Gambia (ECOMIG) – a standby force tasked by ECOWAS Heads of State to enforce the December 1, 2016 election mandate in the The Gambia. The NAF toda...

Par RFI Publié le 13-01-2017 Modifié le 13-01-2017 à 08:54 Le président du Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari, la Libérienne Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, l'ex-chef de l'Etat ghanéen John Dramani Mahama, sont à Banjul ce vendredi 13 janvier pour convaincre une nouvelle fois le président Jammeh de quitter le pouvo...

By Yankuba Jallow The Coalition 2016 Reconciliation Team, National Security Council and The Gambia Red Cross Society on Saturday put in place strategic ways to bring back run away refugees to the country. Several buses were placed at the entrance of all borders of the country to transport the ref...