The Gambian Supreme Court has ruled it should lift sanctions on Libya and return the country's assets to the ruling National Transitional Council.

Gambia's Fatou Bensouda will be elected the ICC's chief prosecutor as the hunt for war criminals and genocidal masterminds becomes more political.

Yahya Jammeh scored a landslide win in presidential polls on Friday, securing a fourth term at the helm of the tiny state.

Friend of Jermaine Jackson, mystic who 'cures' Aids and autocratic leader of winter sun destination, Yahya Jammeh expected to win again.

Gambia's election campaign has wrapped up with rival presidential candidates staging rallies in the tiny capital Banjul ahead of polls.

Not content with his current titles -- His Excellency, the President, Sheik, professor, Alhaji, Doctor -- Yahya Jammeh wants to be crowned King.

Six Gambian journalists, including one who contributed to Reuters, have been jailed for two years for sedition and defamation.

The young waitress waved at the empty tables as a clutch of idle cooks bided time in a corner of one of the Gambian capital's trendy restaurants.

The poorly equipped African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur is set to quit the troubled western Sudanese region by end of September due to a lack of funds, the AU's security organ said on Tuesday. "Whatever happens, our mandate ends on September 31 unless there are new developments," South Africa's Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said.

The inspector general of Gambia's police force was on Sunday in jail along with the West African state's former top immigration official, police sources said. Police chief Landing Badjie and Tamsir Jasseh were arrested on Saturday by National Intelligence Agency officers and taken to the capital's central prison.