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2009: Police officer demoted to the lowest rank for refusing “Jammeh’s witch…
A former Gambian police officer now living in Wisconsin in United States who refused to drink a hallucinogenic concoction of ex-President Yahya Jammeh’s witch doctors was demoted to the lowest rank in police, the Truth Commission heard on…
Germany resume deportation of Gambians
Last week Saturday, 8 Gambian migrants were sent home from Germany, barely a week after newspapers in the European nation reported that Gambia has lifted a moratorium on deportation.
On October 20, a German online newspaper Presse…
Law enforcement officers who fell victim to Jammeh’s witch hunting
In 2009, Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh shocked the world by hiring a band of so-call witch doctors to torment innocent people accused of being witches.
One of the institutions that suffered Jammeh’s witch hunting was the Gambia…
Gambia takes Myanmar to court over killing of Rohingyas
The Gambia hopes to hold Myanmar accountable for the massacre of the Rohingyas, a Muslim minority in northern Rakhine State.
On Monday, the Gambia has filed before the International Court of Justice in The Hague a lawsuit alleging…
Why file a case against Myanmar for accountability for the Rohingya?
The Gambia as a country largely supported by the international community liberated itself from 22 years of dark history characterized by among others, atrocities and enforced disappearances.
The new Gambia is determined to return as it…
‘Gambia has no plans to decriminalize same-sex’
Gambia has no plans to decriminalize same-sex, Government said in its submission to the 34th session of the United National Human Rights Council Working Group.
The Universal Periodic Review is a mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council…
TRRC reacts to court summon against its Exec. Sec. Dr Jallow
On Monday, the lawyer representing Yankuba Touray has asked the High Court to order the arrest of Dr Baba Galleh Jallow, the executive secretary of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission.
Abdoulie Sisoho said the court…
TRRC to start hearings outside of Dunes Hotel
Press release
The Truth, Reconciliation and reparations Commission is currently wrapping up its ninth session which focussed on Sexual and Gender Based Violence and gearing up to the tenth session of hearings.
The upcoming tenth…
TRRC: Putting truth, justice and reconciliation in perspective
By Baba Galleh Jallow
In addition to competing narratives, another interesting conundrum the TRRC is constantly faced with is a series of interrelated demands made by some segments of Gambian society. All too often, demands like truth…
Yankuba Touray’s lawyer asks High Court to arrest TRRC Exec. Sec.
Dr Baba Galleh Jallow has been served a summon from the High Court to submit the written statements of Ensa Mendy, a former orderly to Yankua Touray who gave his statement to the Truth Commission on July 28, 2019.
The lawyer…