The United States has agreed to return $2.5 million to The Gambia, representing proceeds from the sale of a Maryland property linked to former president Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the small West African nation for 22 years. Gambia's finance minister and US Embassy officials signed the agreement in Banjul on Friday, with the funds earmarked for a victims' compensation fund tied to human rights abuses committed during Jammeh's rule. The property in Potomac, Maryland was purchased by Jammeh's wife in 2010 and seized by US authorities in 2022 after it was found to have been bought with money obtained through bribery and embezzlement; Jammeh has lived in exile in Equatorial Guinea since leaving office in 2017.