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Former army Captain Ebrima Kambi said Yahya Jammeh, then commander of military police, was one time driving around in town a vehicle his men arrested with cannabis. He said he had to intervene as his senior to ask him to stop. At the…

November 11 marks the first major execution by former President Yahya Jammeh and his military colleague who took over power on July 22, 1994 Retired Col. Momodou Badjie, a former senior army officer and currently national security…

Bakary Bunja Darboe would later take a job as finance minister with the Junta, a post he would hold for 70 days A former bodyguard to Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara has told the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission that the…

Fajara: January 22, 2018: A Gambia Press Union delegation Tuesday paid a courtesy visit to the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) to discuss issues geared towards strengthening the relationship between the media and…

A former prison medic has told the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission on Tuesday that late Alieu Bah, a detainee at Mile, has confided in him that late Basiru Barrow was tortured by the junta, brought to Mile 2 before he was…

A former prison paramedic officer has told the Truth Commission investigating the human rights violations of the former dictator Yahya Jammeh that some of the military officers subjected to mock execution were mentally destabilized due to…

President Adama Barrow said the construction of the bridge will end “centuries of traveling difficulties”.  The Senegalese president Macky Sall has paid tribute to President Adama Barrow for his role in the construction of the…

The Truth Commission probing the human rights violations of Yahya Jammeh has postponed its Monday sittings due to technical complications as a result of an electric spark. The Commission was scheduled to have a session with its eighth…

Foroyaa newspaper said Halifa Sallah’s courier Edi Jallow has handed over a letter to Dr Baba Galleh Jallow, the executive secretary of the Truth Commission last week.   Halifa Sallah has written to the Truth Commission probing the human…

An unspecified number of Gambians are involved in a boat carrying 117 migrants that sank off the coast of Libya, according to media reports. Three survivors of a rubber dinghy that sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya say…