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'Violence, pure and simple': 2 arrested after baby dies from suspected female genital mutilation in Gambia

August 12, 2025 5:00 pm

Police said the infant was taken to a hospital in the capital, Banjul, after developing severe bleeding, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Gambia upholds its ban on female genital cutting. Reversing it would have been a global first

July 15, 2024 10:33 pm

Activists and human rights groups were worried that a reversal of the ban in Gambia would overturn years of work against the centuries-old practice that's often performed on girls younger than 5 and rooted in the concepts of sexual purity and control.

Swiss court convicts a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity

May 15, 2024 6:17 pm

The trial that began in January was seen by advocacy groups as an opportunity to reach a conviction under “universal jurisdiction,” which allows the prosecution of serious crimes committed abroad.

Indian firm denies tampering with tests in probe of cough syrup deaths in Gambia

December 24, 2023 4:43 pm

"I have never changed the sample," Maiden founder Naresh Kumar Goyal told Reuters. "There is no evidence and no proof against us. I have not given a bribe."

India to consider new drugs bill to regulate imports, manufacturing

July 14, 2023 7:51 pm

The bill is aimed at ensuring "quality, safety, efficacy, performance and clinical trial of new drugs..".

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Gambia to run strict quality check on Indian drugs before shipment

June 23, 2023 3:22 am

This comes nearly a year after 70 children died in the Gambia allegedly after consuming contaminated syrups manufactured by Haryana-based Maiden pharmaceuticals.

Gambia linked India syrup to kids’ deaths, now CDC confirms

March 04, 2023 12:31 am

Last year, 80 children were confirmed to have suffered from AKI in The Gambia between June and November. Of them, 70 died.

After Gambia, an Indian syrup linked to deaths of 18 kids in Uzbekistan

December 29, 2022 11:25 am

In a statement, the Uzbekistan ministry said laboratory tests of the preparation found presence of the contaminant ethylene glycol. It said the medicine was consumed without prescription and in a higher dose by the children affected.

How can a baby have this kind of a disease... This is murder: Families of Gambia cough syrup victims

October 19, 2022 11:25 am

Mohammed Lamin Kijera was a little over 2, Musa, five months short of turning two. The two infants are among 69 Gambian children whose deaths are being linked to contaminated syrups manufactured in India. The Indian Express speaks to their families

From the Explained editor: A week of Nobels, eye on China, and a tragedy in Africa

October 09, 2022 4:07 pm

From the Nobel Prizes awarded this week to the India-made cough syrup that led to the death of 66 in Gambia, check out our best explainers through the week