The Gambia
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Few havens for Gambians forced to flee homeland as homophobia sweeps region
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President Yahya Jammeh signs bill into law under which ‘aggravated homosexuality’ can lead to life imprisonment
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An uprising brought Blaise Compaoré's 27-year rule of Burkina Faso to an end last month, but his lengthy term in power was not unusual for the continent's leaders. Test your knowledge of those who have held top office the longest
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As tourist season begins, hotels have fewer guests than last year and the industry fears visitor numbers may be half the usual
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More than 100 young people attend Guardian-backed event aiming to ‘bury’ female genital mutilation in west African country
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Draft law condemned for making same-sex relations punishable by 20-year sentence, though abolition of death penalty is praised
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Charge of 'aggravated homosexuality' for 'repeat offenders' and those with HIV worsens conditions in homophobic country
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Woman tested negative for deadly virus after falling ill shortly after arriving at Gatwick airport on flight from Gambia
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Stop harassing reporter, urges press freedom group
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Live Better: Reduce, reuse, recycle How a small African recycling project tackles a mountainous rubbish problem
Without the luxury of municipal collections household and business waste is a serious health problem in the Gambia: one group is turning it into a opportunity
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Development and humanitarian organisations need to better understand the cultural beliefs that damage maternal and child health, says Rich McEachran
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Allegations of persistent attempts to destabilise president come a week after government withdrew from the Commonwealth
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She has been detained for 18 days without charge
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Editorial: After the hurdles of decolonisation, apartheid and human rights, the Commonwealth emerges as a voluntarist group of 54 countries
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: This timid international club will suffer more defections like the Gambia's if it doesn't stand up for its values
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Sources close to Gambian government say they had no idea about decision believed to have been made by president
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In an unexpected move, it is giving up its membership after almost half a century, branding the institution neocolonial
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Announcement on west African nation's state television channel does not explain reason for decision
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The EU has cut aid to the west African country experiencing a tourism boom, where executions happen apparently at random
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Holly Baxter: The reductive, lazy sexism that pervades much of our science journalism turns research into a comment on the female form
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Labour group says decision to 'devote more time to prayers and social activities' is bad for the west African country's economy
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Female genital mutilation is illegal in the UK, but an asylum seeker fears it will be forced on her daughter if they are deported
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Two held by police after requesting permission to demonstrate
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Operation No Back Way to Europe is deterring illegal emigration by supporting agriculture in vulnerable districts of the Gambia
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President's threat to kill all of the country's remaining 38 death row inmates isolates west African nation
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Gambia leader executes nine prisoners including two Senegalese citizens to tackle rising crime rate
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Amnesty receives credible reports that nine prisoners have been killed and warns that more executions could be imminent
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Study finds visitors to Bali, the Gambia and Goa use 16 times as much water as locals, causing conflict and disease
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Police detain two journalists without charge
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A pocket of land between Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Gambia has played host to one of contemporary Africa's longest wars
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ICC's new chief prosecutor must resolve standoff with Libya and bring relations with Africa back from breaking point
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President Yahya Jammeh has spent cash on musicians and footballers yet the Gambia is facing a severe food crisis
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Africa's smallest country is struggling with the combined effects of failed rains, rising food prices and poor harvests
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Gaddafi-armed Tuareg rebels in Mali and terrorist attacks in Nigeria are adding to the growing crisis in the Sahel region
Commonwealth apathy over Sri Lanka is only to be expected