World news about Gambia, including breaking news and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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01/11/2010 08:00 AM
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Airlines Refuse to Transport Radical Cleric
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The radical Jamaican cleric who was deported to Gambia last week has been returned to Kenya, Kenyan news media reported late on Sunday.
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01/08/2010 08:00 AM
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Kenya Deports Muslim Cleric Said to Be Linked to Terrorists
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Kenya deports Jamaican-born radical cleric Abdullah el-Faisal, whose online sermons drew attention of Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up American airliner; sends Faisal to Gambia, where he will stay briefly before returning to Jamaica; says that Faisal's history of radical statements and his previous connections with convicted terrorists made him threat to Kenya's security; photo
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05/21/2009 08:00 AM
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Witch Hunts and Foul Potions Heighten Fear of Leader in Gambia
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 Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Gambians are frightened and sick after being rounded up and accused of sorcery. The campaign is the latest exploit of Gambia’s absolute ruler.
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02/26/2007 08:00 AM
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Gambian Defends the International Criminal Court’s Initial Focus on Africans
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 All of the cases set to be taken up by the International Criminal Court so far involve Africa, drawing concern among Africans that their continent is the new court’s principal target.
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09/24/2006 08:00 AM
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Gambia President Leading
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Gambia’s president was on course for a third term, with 67 percent of the vote after a count of three-quarters of constituencies.
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07/02/2006 08:00 AM
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African Union Urges Action to Ease Crises in Somalia and Sudan
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The conflicts in northeast Africa seemed uppermost in the minds of leaders at a two-day economic summit meeting.
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09/04/2005 08:00 AM
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Memories Linger Where NASA Lights Shone in Gambia
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 Gambia played a behind-the-scenes role in the complicated task of space exploration, serving as an emergency landing site for NASA shuttles.
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06/17/2003 08:00 AM
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Beyond Cute: Exotic Pets Come Bearing Exotic Germs
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Dr Michael T Osterholm, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director and University of Minnesota public health professor, contends popular trade in exotic pets has created hotbed for worldwide infectious disease; transmission of germs between animals from different regions who would not have contact in wild, fosters situation in which they can spread germs to each other and to owners who purchase them; such transmission occurred when monkeypox, delivered from Gambian rat, moved on...
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06/10/2003 08:00 AM
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Monkeypox Casts Light on Rule Gap for Exotic Pets
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Agriculture Department guidelines for importing pets do not restrict rodents, so that there appears to be no wrongdoing behind monkeypox outbreak that apparently began with giant pouched rat from Gambia and was passed through prairie dogs to more than thirty people in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana; rapidly expanding exotic pet industry operates largely without federal regulation, with department licensing pet dealers but not what they sell; Animal People editor Merritt Clifton says exotic cre...
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06/09/2003 08:00 AM
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Less Lethal Cousin of Smallpox Arrives in the U.S.
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Monkeypox, viral disease related to smallpox but less infectious and less deadly, is detected for first time in Americas; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says at least 23 cases have been reported in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana; all patients had direct or close contact with ill prairie dogs; they have become fad in exotic-pet market and might have caught monkeypox from another species, possibly Gambian giant pouched rats, which are imported as pets from West or Central Africa, whe...
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10/09/2002 08:00 AM
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FOOTLIGHTS
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Footlights column: Nearly 100 watercolors by Civil War map maker and artist Robert Knox Sneden are on view at New York State Museum in Albany; readings and song will help celebrate 105th anniversary of Yiddish-language daily The Forward at Eldridge Street Synagogue on Lower East Side; Symphony Space will celebrate 10th anniversary of Poetry in Motion program that has presented poems on subways and buses since 1992 with readings by Sandra Cisneros and other poets; Smithsonian Folkways Recordings...
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04/16/2000 08:00 AM
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On Africa's Fluid Borders, My Land Is Your Land
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Borders in Africa are world's most fluid and porous, absurd legacy of European colonialists; Africans often ignore existence of borders, responding to far stronger forces of family, ethnicity, commerce and language, while leaders insist borders are inviolable; artificiality of borders has contributed to wars and stunted economic growth; confusing situation in Gambia, enclave carved out of surrounding then French-controlled Senegal by British, cited; map; photo
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