Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, it’s referred to as Gambia. In Africa, where natives take nothing for granted, it’s called the Gambia.

In a small Gambian village founded decades ago by Ghanaian fishermen, their descendants languish without ID documents.

When I spoke to Santana Simiyu, a human rights lawyer at Equality Now, working with partners on The Gambia’s FGM Supreme Court case, she told me something I have not forgotten. Children’s rights are ...

From her beginnings as a child representative in The Gambia to becoming an internationally recognized human rights advocate, Dr. Satang Nabaneh’s journey is a testament to resilience and bold action.

Almost a third of women aged between 20 and 24 in Gambia were married before the age of 18, and nearly a tenth before 15, according to data from the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF). Women's rights ...

ZINGUINCHOR, Senegal – John* could not hide the relief on his face as he waited with his wife and children for a bus at Senegal’s Selety border crossing to take them back to their home in the Gambia ...

A trial opened Tuesday in The Gambia's capital Banjul over the deaths last year of small children who took a cough syrup made by the India-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals.

In the United States, it’s referred to as Gambia. In Africa, where natives take nothing for granted, it’s called the Gambia. Indeed, it’s a wonderful place filled with joy and appreciation. Also ...