The students from Saint Mary's University did not know that Canadians were buried in The Gambia until a few weeks ago but spent Remembrance Day honouring the 10 soldiers buried in the Fajara War Cemetery.

A class of Halifax university students is about to make history, marking Remembrance Day at a group of little-known graves for Canadian soldiers in the West African country of The Gambia.

Yahya Jammeh also shipped out an unknown number of luxury vehicles by cargo plane before taking exile in Equatorial Guinea, a special adviser for the new Gambian president said.