Head of the human rights committee in the House of Representatives, Tarek Radwan, said that Egypt under President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has given the greatest attention to achieving human rights in its comprehensive concept.
Egypt participated in the (...)
Egypt affirmed on Tuesday its determination to continue efforts to promote civil, political, economic, social, and cultural human rights in parallel with the advancement of the status of women, the protection of the rights of children, persons with (...)
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry received on Wednesday Mamadou Tangara, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of The Gambia, in Cairo.
Ahmed Abu Zeid, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the (...)
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and his Gabon team mates were forced to spend the night sleeping on the airport floor ahead of their vital Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Gambia.
Aubameyang used social media to highlight their plight after (...)
A Gambian army officer has testified that he and two colleagues shot dead journalist Deyda Hydara in 2004 on orders from then- President Yahya Jammeh, providing the first direct account of the previously unexplained killing.
Hydara, a critic of (...)
*First leg results between parentheses
Tuesday 20 February
AS Port-Louis 2000 4-1 Ngazi Club (1-1)
AS Port-Louis reach the second round on a 5-2 aggregate win.
Masters Security FC 0-0. Petro de Luanda (0-5)
Petro Luanda reach the second round on a (...)
All times Cairo time (GMT+2)
Friday 9 February
Onze Createurs 1-1 CR Belouizdad
Scorers: Samaki 45 / Bechou 65
Djoliba v Elwa United (cancelled)
Saturday 10 February
Ngazi Club 1-1 AS Port-Louis 2000
Ben Guerdane 3-0 Al-Hilal Juba
Olympic (...)
Gambians have reached the bottom. They don't have work, they don't have money, and they dream of leaving this sliver of a nation hugging the banks of the River Gambia in West Africa.
The tragedy of the country was personified in the drowning of one (...)
Gambia's authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh said on Saturday he was stepping down under pressure from regional armies which entered the West African country this week following his refusal to concede an election defeat to President Adama (...)
West African leaders said it was no longer possible for Gambia's veteran leader Yahya Jammeh to stay in power as regional military forces stood ready to advance on the capital Banjul on Friday.
Three presidents were due to visit Banjul to give (...)
Defeated Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has agreed to cede power to the country's newly inaugurated leader, a Senegalese government official confirmed late Friday.
Final arrangements were being made to the agreement, the official said, speaking on (...)
West African troops were poised to intervene in Gambia on Thursday after President Yahya Jammeh's mandate expired and overnight talks to convince him to stand down failed.
Senegal has deployed hundreds of soldiers to its shared border with Gambia (...)
Senegal's forces are at the Gambian border and will enter at midnight if veteran Gambian President Yahya Jammeh refuses to leave power, Colonel Abdou Ndiaye, a spokesman for the Senegalese army, told Reuters on Wednesday.
Jammeh, who lost a Dec. 1 (...)
Senegal's forces are at the Gambian border and will enter at midnight if veteran Gambian President Yahya Jammeh refuses to leave power, Colonel Abdou Ndiaye, a spokesman for the Senegalese army, told Reuters.
Jammeh, who lost a Dec. 1 election to (...)
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced that it would be taking a “major decision” regarding the ongoing crisis in Gambia triggered by President Yahya Jammeh rejecting the result of presidential elections he lost in early (...)
Beneath the placid surface, trouble was brewing for Gambia's president Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jammeh, in power for 22 years.
Jammeh lost last Friday's presidential poll to Adama Barrow, a real estate company owner who was declared the winner a day after (...)
Gambia has charged six women with offences including rioting, unlawful assembly and inciting violence for demonstrating against the prosecution of dozens of opposition activists, a defence lawyer and court official said on Saturday.
Police arrested (...)
Gambian soldiers took advantage Tuesday to stage a military coup attempt during Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's visit to France.
Soldiers attacked the presidential palace in the capital, Banjul that is located near the military base at Denton (...)
Cameroon have recalled Sebastien Bassong and Joel Matip to their squad for next month's African Nations Cup qualifier away to the Gambia, the Cameroon Football Federation said on Wednesday.
Norwich City central defender Bassong missed out on the (...)
Title holders Entente Setif booked a last-16 place at the African Champions League after claiming a 2-0 home victory over Gambia's Real Banjul in the second leg of the competition's round of 32 on Friday.
Midfielder Toufik Zerara put them ahead on (...)
Holders ES Setif of Algeria settled for a 1-1 draw away to Gambia's Real de Banjul while four-time winners TP Mazembe lost 1-0 at South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns in the first leg of the African Champions League round of 32 on Saturday.
Midfielder (...)
Security forces in Gambia have begun arresting people suspected of having links to an attempted coup this week, sources in the country and international human rights groups said on Friday.
It was not immediately clear how many arrests had been made (...)
Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure announced that he will miss former-teammate Didier Drogba as The Elephants face Gambia in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers on Saturday.
“I don't feel so happy because Drogba is absent from the fold,” Toure (...)
Statement delivered at the 53rd ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights in Banjul, Gambia
Madame chair, ladies and gentlemen
Today, Ethiopia lives through the sword of the Damocles drawn against it. The scourge of the (...)
First leg results in practice
(All times GMT)
U.R.A (Uganda)3-4 Coton Sport (Cameroon) (0-0)
Coton Sportwin 4-3 after penalty kicks
Djabal FC (Comoros)0-4 Orlando Pirates (South Africa) (0-5)
Orlando Pirates win 9-0 aggregate
Tusker (Kenya)3-0 St. (...)
