Human rights

The Commission established to probe the human right violations of the former dictator Yahya Jammeh will signed a memorandum of understanding with the Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations. The Victims Centre was…

By ratifying the Convention, Gambia expresses its consent to apply the Rules on Transparency to investor-State arbitrations initiated under investment treaties concluded before 1 April 2014. Gambia is the latest nation to have signed on…

Gambian rights activists and a native of Kombo Gunjur, Dr Amadou Scattred Janneh, has been slapped with two-count at the Brikama Magistrate Court on Wednesday. Dr Janneh was arrested on Tuesday, days after returning from United States.…

By Madi Jobarteh It is high time that our leaders and technocrats think critically about national development and how to bring it about. Ultimately unless we build national capacity by creating institutions and working with local private…

Gambian police have arrested Dr Amadou Scattred Janneh on Tuesday in his native village Gunjur. Dr Janneh confirmed his arrest to Kerr Fatou while at a police station but details about his allege wrongdoing are not available. Dr Janneh…

After a year of inactivity, irregular migration has picked up in 2018 though to a slow start. Kerr Fatou tracks progresses and shortcomings on implementation of Gambia's youth empowerment policies. By Mustapha K Darboe With an…

The retreat was meant to outline a clear path for the security sector reform in the country, a process that that will be owned by Gambian people.  Head of security institutions in the Gambia, senior civil servants and international…

The Gambia Press Union demands a thorough and impartial investigation by the Inspector General of Police into an alleged assault on the cameraman of Eye Africa online television. Bubacarr Manga was allegedly slapped by a member of the…

Babucarr Manka, a cameraman working for a Gambian online television call Eye Africa, has been reportedly attacked by the militarized wing of the Gambian police. The attack which was widely condemned by activists and journalists as an…

Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court has ruled that Ousman Sonko, a former interior minister of Gambia suspected of human rights abuses, must remain in Swiss detention until January 2019. In a decision published on Monday, the…