By Ben Westcott, CNN Updated 0757 GMT (1557 HKT) January 19, 2017 current gambia president refuses to step down sevenzo_00011128 Source: CNN (CNN)A midnight deadline has passed in the Gambia, leaving the African country in flux with two presidents and West African troops massed on the border. ...

UEMOA/ Inaugurada em Bissau primeira sede da organização nos países membros 2016-11-03 (ANG) - A representação da União Económica e Monetária Oeste Africana passou, a partir de hoje, a contar com a própria sede, incluindo residência do seu representante no pais, sita no bairro de Enterramento, arr...

DAKAR, SENEGAL, 27 October 2016 (UNHCR) – Significant progress has been made to eradicate statelessness around the world, but ongoing conflicts are putting those advances at risk. Marking the second anniversary of the global #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, ...

SECURITY COUNCIL 7862ND MEETING (AM) SC/12681 Amid a “rising tide of democracy” across the African continent, the United Nations must continue to support regional efforts to ensure that the Gambia’s recent election results were upheld, stressed the Organization’s senior official in West Africa...

Bissau, 01 Nov 16 (ANG) – A Política Nacional da família, visando melhorar as condições sociais dos agregados guineenses, em particular as que vivem em situação de extrema pobreza foi recentemente validado num ateliê organizado pela ONU. Os proponentes pretendem com o documento, entre outras fina...

Video by Patrick FANDIO , Marie DEMARQUE , Tristan LE PAIH Text by FRANCE 24 Latest update : 2017-01-25 Refugees have been streaming back into Gambia since the departure on Saturday of strongman Yahya Jammeh, who finally bowed to international pressure to accept his election defeat. In the...

Officials from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), along with the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR), have adopted the world’s first action plan to eradicate statelessness. Stateless people do not have citizenship in any country and often do not have access to work, education or heal...

DAKAR – West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said on Monday. Stateless people, sometimes referred ...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said ...

West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, Reuters reports human rights experts as saying on Monday. Stateless people, sometim...