Coup attempts are not uncommon in the Gambia, a tiny West African country of 2.5 million almost entirely surrounded by Senegal, which is still reeling from over two decades under former president ...

The story of the most recent coup in the West African country of Gambia starts on U.S. soil. Gambians living in Texas, Maryland and Minnesota helped orchestrate it.

Gambia is a country of 1.5 million people that is less than half the size of Connecticut. It has no critical natural resources and is considered peripheral to vital US interests. The coup attempt ...

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DAKAR, Senegal - Heavy gunfire rang out Tuesday near the presidential palace in the tiny West African nation of Gambia, residents said, as the government denied a coup attempt was under way with ...

A Minnesota man is pleading guilty to charges tied to a failed coup in the West African nation of Gambia. Forty-six-year-old Papa Faal of Brooklyn Park pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts.

BANJUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Gambia's high court on Tuesday sentenced a soldier to 12 years in prison for leading a foiled coup last year against President Adama Barrow's administration.

Nairobi — The African Union and the Economic Community of West African States have condemned an alleged coup attempt in Gambia. The Gambian government says it arrested four troops planning to ...

Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said Friday a Tennessee man was part of the December coup attempt along with a Brooklyn Park man who pleaded guilty to the charges Thursday.

Failed Gambia coup: Claims that plot to depose strongman President Yahya Jammeh was hatched in America. Two US citizens are accused of organising the group labelled freedom fighters by supporters ...

Three Gambian-Americans who tried unsuccessfully in 2014 to overthrow Yahya Jammeh, the dictator of the West African nation, were sentenced to prison by a federal judge in St. Paul on Thursday ...

Two U.S. citizens have been arrested on charges they conspired to aid last week’s unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government of Gambia, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Monday ...