Yahya Jammeh

African peacekeeping missions, deployed over 40 times since 2000 by the UN and African Union, have reduced armed conflicts by 35 percent, with African nations now contributing 50 percent of global peacekeepers through the shift from non-interference to active intervention principles.

Several people have been arrested for alleged involvement in a coup plot in Gambia, while President Yahya Jammeh was visiting Dubai, blaming foreigners for the attack without naming them.