The University Teaching Hospital (UTH) has embarked on a programme of distributing beds to mini hospitals to help decongest the country’s biggest health facility.

Speaking in an interview with Komboni radio news acting public relations officer Natalie Mashikolo said UTH management is committed to ensuring that the trend of having improvised floor beds is reversed in order to promote quality health care provision. Ms. Mashikolo added that it has been difficult for medical personnel…

Senegalese police say they have arrested general Bora Colley, the man who ran Gambia’s prisons, where human rights group say perceived political opponents were tortured and in some cases died.

Colley was made director of prisons by Gambia’s former leader, Yahya Jammeh, who lost an election last month but refused to step down. Enca reports that Colley has since been handed over to Senegalese military authorities Senegalese police say. Colley who was appointed director of Gambia’s prisons in 2012 served…