A radical Muslim cleric who once led a London mosque attended by convicted terrorists was deported to Gambia on Thursday because he posed a serious threat to Kenya's security, the immigration minister said. Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal had not committed crimes in Kenya nor was he ...

Kenya finally deported to Gambia a Jamaican Muslim cleric who is on a global terror watchlist and served four years in a British jail for inciting racial hatred, a minister said Thursday. Kenya police had tried to deport Abdullah al-Faisal, 45, to neighbouring Tanzania but Dar es Salaam rejected the move and the controversial imam was sent back to Nairobi ...

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade arrived Tuesday in Banjul for a 24-hour working visit to Gambia to warm up relations between the neighbouring countries, officials said. Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh met Wade at the airport, then the two took roads lined with flags of both nations towards the hotel in the city centre where the Senegalese delegation will be ...

Guinea-Bissau's former navy chief, accused of having led a 2008 failed coup bid, has returned to the country and taken refuge at a United Nations office, the government said Monday, vowing to arrest him. A senior UN official confirmed to AFP that Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchute had arrived at the UN headquarters in Bissau Monday morning. He had ...