The Gambia’s current ambassador to Mauritania Sheikh Omar Faye was in 1990 called to national duty of leading a contingent of Gambian peace-keepers to Liberia to protect the President of that country and to enforce peace amid a brutal civil war, but Faye was dismissed from the Gambia National Army[Read More…]

In August of 1990, a military plane, carrying over 135 Gambian peace-keepers, took off at the Banjul International Airport for the Lungi International Airport in Sierra Leone, marking the beginning of a dangerous and gruelling nine-month peace-keeping mission for the troops to the then war-torn Liberia, but after raising the[Read More…]