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Meet the 90-year old victim of Jammeh’s witch doctors
Masirending Bojang was over 80 years when she was captured in a village call Jambur, a settlement located some 52 minutes drive from Banjul.
On Wednesday, the Truth Commission had before it, for the first time, a witness who is over 90…
Old women who were stripped naked by Jammeh’s Green Boys
On Tuesday, three women who are natives of Ganloya, a village in the West Coast region, have told the Truth Commission that they were humiliated by the Green Boys during the 2009 witch hunting. The Truth Commission is in its second day of…
Forced to drink witch doctors’ concoction, Jambur’s imam explain ordeal
As the Truth Commission began its hearing in Jambur, two leaders of the village, Imam Omar Bojang and Dembo Mamu Bojang, explained what they suffered when they were arrested by so-call witch hunters in 2009. Dembo and Omar were given…
Media Services Bill: Silencing the media!
Yet again the Government of Adama Barrow has proposed yet another piece of law which can only be described as unnecessary but clearly intended to limit the space for the media and consequently silence citizens in the way they engage on…
Justice Ministry amends the ‘problematic’ Criminal Offences Bill
The Ministry of Justice has removed a provision in the amended Criminal Offences Bill that is to be tabled before lawmakers in December.
The particular provision that the Ministry amended seeks to criminalise the parental insults of the…
Gambia to enact new insult laws
Gambian authorities are in the process of enacting new insult laws in the country barely a year after the Supreme Court partially declared sedition unconstitutional.
Sedition is a colonial law which criminalizes conduct or speech that…
Concerns over the draft Criminal Offences Bill 2019
On Tuesday December 2nd the Minister of Justice will lay before the National Assembly a bill to amend the current Criminal Code. I wish to call on National Assembly Members not to approve this bill because it contains provisions that…
Ex-Pres. Jammeh sent witch doctors to police headquarters—former IGP
Ensa Badgie, the former chief of the Gambia police, has told the Truth Commission on Wednesday that the witch hunting that happened in several places in the country in 2009 was on the orders of former president Yahya Jammeh.
It is not…
Gambian refugees in Europe issue a deportation alert
The Gambia Refugee Association in Europe said on Wednesday that it has received information that one of its members was arrested in Munich while trying to renew his document (Aussweiss).
Germany has resumed deportation of Gambian this…
UN special rapporteur on promotion of truth commissions to visit Gambia
The United Nations special rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Mr Fabián Salvioli, will conduct an official country visit to the Gambia from 20 to 27 November 2019 at the invitation…