MPs in the Gambia vote to uphold ban on female genital mutilation
Campaigners applaud decision not to repeal law in west African country with one of the highest rates of FGM
April 2024
‘Right to freedom from torture’: UN experts urge the Gambia not to decriminalise FGM
Trainee FGM ‘cutter’ who fled the Gambia fights renewed risk to girls
March 2024
The Gambia: FGM supporters march to overturn ban – video
Move to overturn FGM ban in the Gambia postponed
January 2024
The Gambia team make emergency landing on way to Africa Cup of Nations
Gambian ex-minister on trial in Switzerland for crimes against humanity
October 2023
FGM ban in the Gambia under threat as calls grow to repeal law
Women’s rights campaigners denounce ‘hugely regressive’ proposals from political and religious leaders to decriminalise practice
June 2023
Police release e-fit of man found dead in wheel bay of Gatwick-bound plane
Detectives hope to identify man, whose body was found on a Tui flight from the Gambia on 7 December
April 2023
The age of extinction
Avian flu outbreak in the Gambia threatens birds on East Atlantic Flyway
Hundreds of dead birds found in past three weeks as conservationists call for international funding to help stop the disease spreading on migration routes
January 2023
WHO urges action after cough syrups linked to more than 300 child deaths
Other lives
Frances Foord obituary
December 2022
Man’s body found on plane after journey from the Gambia to UK
Body found in undercarriage of Tui flight on 7 December on arrival at Gatwick airport
October 2022
Indonesia bans sale of syrup medicines after at least 99 child deaths
Country investigating 206 cases of kidney injury that could be linked to ingredients in liquid medicines
Opinion
India must act on drug adulteration – lives around the world are at stake
Dinesh S Thakur and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu
Cases of disregard for manufacturing standards are risking the country’s reputation as the ‘developing world’s pharmacy’
Warning over cough syrups after 66 children die in the Gambia
WHO says the contaminated medications may have been distributed outside of the West African country, with global exposure ‘possible’
July 2022
Kora player Sona Jobarteh: ‘I didn’t want to be told: you are good, for a woman’
Genocide case against Myanmar over Rohingya atrocities cleared to proceed
May 2022
Stewards of the forest: the pioneering women’s collective harvesting the Gambia’s oysters
The all-female workforce is part of a visionary project committed to protecting the wetland forests. Now their challenge is to earn a sustainable living year-round
March 2022
‘We took our children and ran’: thousands displaced as Senegal’s 40-year war crosses border
More than 6,ooo people have left their homes as renewed violence in the Casamance region spills into the Gambia
