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Gambian returnees tour country to tell dangers of irregular migration
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…
UN concern by Gambia’s ‘inaction’ in protecting evidence at SIS
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…
Gambia: 23 prisoners on death row
The Gambia has also initiated moves to complete the process of accession to the Convention against Torture before the end of 2018.
Gambia government has told the United Nations Human Rights Committee that the country is working on…
Gambia should ban SIS, Victim Centre makes case to UN
Gambia appears before the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation by States of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), from July 5 to 6 in Geneva.
Gambia should dissolve the States…
Six police charged with murder over Faraba killings
Six police officers have been charged with murder over the killings of 3 protesters in Faraba at the Banjul Magistrate Court on Thursday.
The officers who were charged with 3 counts of murder in connection to the Faraba incident denied…
Activists threaten legal action against allege rapist
Activists said on Sunday that the Female Lawyers Association has agreed to take up the case against a French National who was reportedly involved in a beach sex with a minor.
Gambian activists have registered dismay at the inaction of…
Gunjur man who insulted Barrow charged with seditious intention
Gambia government has made a commitment at the Supreme Court about three months ago that they will not prosecute anyone for sedition and that they have agreed that sedition is unconstitutional.
A native of Gunjur, who has recorded a…
Survivors of Jammeh’s ‘fake’ HIV treatment sue ex-dictator
Survivors of Bogus HIV and AIDS “Cure” Seek Compensation, Recognition of Human Rights Abuses in Gambian Courts
Three survivors of Yahya Jammeh’s fraudulent and destructive HIV and AIDS “treatment programme” have today filed a legal…
Ghanaian president orders study of Yahya Jammeh’s extradition request
The request which was made by a campaign group Human Rights Watch and Trial International is led by an American lawyer, Reed Broody, Ghanaian media reported.
The government of Ghana has on Sunday directed its Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
Gambia gov’t opens returned general’s detention condition to scrutiny
The Gambia’s Justice Minister told donor meeting in Brussels that the return of the ‘rogue’ soldiers who have left with former ruler Yahya Jammeh shows their faith in the country’s justice system.
Abubacarr Tambadou, The Gambia’s…