Africa, World

The news that 70 percent of women in parts of Niger find it normal that their husbands, fathers and brothers regularly beat, rape and humiliate them...

Four months after the passing of a law criminalising slavery in Mauritania, anti-slavery activists hope newly-announced funding for the...

As Uganda's western district of Bundibugyo grapples with the consequences of an outbreak of the Ebola virus, which has killed 22 people in three...

Justice MM Yamoa has transferred the sedition trial involving Fatou Jaw Manneh, a Gambian journalist based in the United States, back to the...

Lamin Waa Juwara, leader of the opposition National Democratic Action Movement (NDAM), and a member of the Interim Committee of Brikama Area...

Sherifo Fadera and Omar Jassey, first and second witnesses in the infanticide trial involving a young mother  (name witheld), believed...

Bakary Jammeh, marketing manager of the Gambia National Lottery (GNL) has revealed that the GNL will launch their new Joni Joni on Monday,...

Pa Ousman Joof, a Gambian based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America was recently featured in the first movie exclusively acted by Africans...

It emerged out of the slums of Jamaica. Since then it has crossed boundaries and established itself in nations thousands of miles away from its...

The first Jamaican studio opened in 1951 and recorded "mento" music, a fusion of European and African folk dance music. The island was awash in...