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Rights groups investigate Yahya Jammeh allege rape and sexual assault misconduct against Gambian girls (Dakar, June 26, 2019) – Three women have accused Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, of rape and sexual assault while he was in…

An unnamed military man has accidentally shot his colleague at a military guard post in former president Yahya Jammeh’s home village of Kanilai. The army spokesperson Major Laming Sanyang told Kerr Fatou that the victim, Lance Corporal…

Demba Dem said he saw former speaker and elder statesman Sheriff Mustapha Dibba being kicked and beaten at the headquarters of National Intelligence Agency. Demba Dem was a National Assembly member for the Alliance for Patriotic…

The former managing director of NAWEC, Baba Fatajo, confirmed to Kerr Fatou that he has received his marching orders. President Adama Barrow has fired the managing director of National Water and Electricity Company, Baba Fatajo. A…

Six serving members of the Gambia National Army have been arrested at different times last and 3 others are at large, army spokesperson Major Lamin Sanyang told Kerr Fatou. Sanyang said the soldiers’ arrest is in connection to allege…

The Gambia Center for Victims of Human Rights Violations said it is deeply concerned by the recent remarks of the Presidential Adviser Hon. Henry Gomez referencing the brutality meted at the victims of April 10 & 11, 2000 student…

Another witness claims General Alagie Martin was part of the team that torture suspects of the 2006 foiled coup plot   Demba Dem, a native of Nyakoi village, has told the Truth Commission that the Junglers and members of the State…

Press release: On Sunday June 10, 2019 the People’s Progressive Party’s New York Chapter unanimously selected an interim committee to help coordinate the affairs of the party in New York. The PPP’s National Executive Committee, Central…

A TRRC witness on Monday, Kasamanding Keita, implicates chief of Mansakonko Yahya Jarjusey in her 1 month, 10 days illegal detention.   Kasamanding Keita, a woman mobiliser for the United Democratic Party, has implicated the chief of…

A windstorm in Central and Upper River Regions on Wednesday has killed 3 people, displaced several others. Mama Kandeh, the leader of the Gambia Democratic Congress, has visited communities in Central River Region that were devastated by…