Human rights

Meanwhile, the newly appointed secretary general, Ebrima O. Camara, has taken oath on Monday. Members of the commission established by President Adama Barrow to investigate land disputes in the country have taken oath on Monday at State…

The Faraba Commission has recommended the prosecution of certain people who they have found to be culpable, said chairperson Emmanuel Joof.   President Adama Barrow has promised to take a firm decision on the recommendations of the…

Mustapha K Darboe My favourite dub poet Uncle Mutabaruka was once asked if he had ever been jail, agitated he appeared, and replied “I am still there trying to escape”. For most of us, this is ridiculous because someone who is going…

Press freedom activists and human rights defenders have denounced the attack on the GRTS camera crew on Saturday and demand urgent investigation. Gambian police are investigating the attack on the camera crew of the Gambia Radio and…

Yahya Jammeh who now lives in exile in Equatorial Guinea faces several allegations of torture, killings and theft of public funds.  A film done by an international human rights group, Amnesty International, on how Gambians ousted former…

Gambia’s basic and secondary education ministry said on Tuesday that the analysis that most people have made on the recent WASSCE results have been reliant on an inaccurate data. Mohammed Jallow, permanent secretary at the ministry of…

The camera crew of the Gambia Radio and Television Services has been attacked in Bujinga as they cover the burial ritual of former president’s mother, inside sources at the state broadcaster have confirmed to Kerr Fatou. Aja Asombi…

The Gambia Prisons Service and other security outfits of the country have started a manhunt for 13 persons who broke out of Jeshwang Prison on Thursday night, 2nd of August, during the rains. The public relations officer at the Prison,…

Mustapha Sallah is Secretary General of a group of migrant returnees called Youths Against Irregular Migration (YAIM). Sallah, 32, was repatriated from Libya in April 2017, and today he thanks God he escaped death, which could…

By Mustapha K Darboe The United Nations Human Rights Committee has expressed concern over Gambia’s ‘evident’ lack of steps to protect “archives of the former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and other on-site evidence, which may impede…