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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

Gambia

(R to L) Deputy Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia Waleed Al-Khuraiji and Azerbaijan Yalchin Rafiyev, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour and Jordanian Foreign Minster Ayman Safadi, attend the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah on August 7, 2024. (Amer HILABI / AFP)
August 7, 2024, 10:15 pm
Saudi Arabia calls Haniyeh killing a ‘blatant violation’ of Iran’s sovereignty
Comment by deputy FM during extraordinary meeting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation is first reaction by Iran’s regional rival to assassination in Tehran
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Surgery at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, September 12, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 4, 2021, 9:52 am
2 young Gambians who had heart surgery in Israel return home after 2-month delay
Omar, 15, and Amadou, 21, brought to the country by the Save A Child’s Heart group, had been unable to fly back due to coronavirus restrictions on international travel
By ToI Staff
Public Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda enters the courtroom for the trial of Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, at the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)
January 13, 2020, 1:08 pm
ICC prosecutor: Netanyahu’s anti-Semitism charge is ‘particularly regrettable’
In far-ranging exchange, Fatou Bensouda responds to what she calls ‘character assassination’; says she ‘fondly’ remembers her 1998 trip to Israel, hopes to be able to visit again
By Raphael Ahren
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, December 18, 2012 (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)
December 26, 2019, 11:59 pm
Now maligned by Jerusalem, ICC prosecutor Bensouda was welcomed by Israel in ’98
Two decades before she accused Israel of war crimes, Fatou Bensouda attended a Foreign Ministry event on women’s leadership, visited President’s Residence and met senior officials
By Raphael Ahren
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda addresses the 18th session of the ICC Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, December 2, 2019. (Courtesy International Criminal Court)
December 26, 2019, 10:07 am
From The Gambia to The Hague: Meet Israel’s new public enemy number one
ICC prosecutor Bensouda’s bid to probe Israel for war crimes is being met with intense hostility, including by reporters highlighting her past work for a brutal African dictator
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at the airport in Liberia's capital Monrovia after arriving for an official state visit on June 4, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
June 4, 2017, 5:06 pm
Seeking to boost ties, Netanyahu meets with African leaders
In Monrovia to attend economic summit, PM says improving relations with Israel must be translated into support at the UN
By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren
Former president Yaya Jammeh (C,up), the Gambia's leader for 22 years, waves from the plane as he leaves the country on 21 January 2017 in Banjul. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
January 22, 2017, 11:43 am
Gambia’s defeated leader cedes power, flees country
Ending a 22-year reign of fear, Yahya Jammeh goes into exile after regional powers threaten military intervention to end political crisis
By AFP
Delegates from West Africa at an agricultural conference in Israel, December 5, 2016 (courtesy Mashav)
December 5, 2016, 12:26 pm
African ministers in Israel for first-ever agricultural summit
Top officials from 13 West African states come to Jerusalem to discuss sustainable productivity in arid and semi-arid regions
By Raphael Ahren
Paul Charney (left) with house mother Isatou Sillah, who is holding child patient Sanusay Demba at Wolfson Hospital in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)
September 10, 2016, 5:19 pm
How saving kids’ lives in Africa is Zionism
Paul Charney is a South African-Israeli living in Britain, acting as a Zionist advocate while helping children in Gambia. Sound complicated? It’s not
By Jenni Frazer
Residents pass a kiosk, center, that is used as a clinic where girls are circumcised by a barber, in the Imbaba area of Giza, Egypt, Novenbe 26, 2012. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
August 31, 2016, 11:04 pm
Egypt parliament toughens penalties for female circumcision
Those caught carrying out genital mutilation, prevalent in Egypt but criminalized in 2008, could face 7 years in prison
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Sanusey, a Gambian four-year-old who underwent life-saving heart surgery in Israel (Stella Shalhevet / Save a Child's Heart)
June 17, 2016, 4:37 pm
Sanusey, 4, is 4,000th helped by Save a Child’s Heart
Israeli charity helps bring children suffering heart ailments for treatments not available in their home countries
By ToI Staff
Israel's ambassador to Gambia Paul Hirschson inspects an honor guard in Gambia's capital Banjul, January 12, 2016. (Courtesy Israel Embassy, Dakar)
January 15, 2016, 6:20 am
When the world’s newest Islamic republic honors the Jewish state
Paul Hirschson, Israel’s ambassador to Gambia, dissects the significance of a tiny West African nation’s name change
By Raphael Ahren
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh (CC BY-SA 3.0 Zantastik)
December 12, 2015, 4:25 pm
Gambia’s president declares his country an Islamic republic
Yahya Jammeh says move in line with nation’s religious identity, vows Christian community’s rights will be protected
By Agencies
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