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Gambia Launches Truth Commission into Ex-Dictator’s Abuse

Gambia Launches Truth Commission into Ex-Dictator’s Abuse

The tiny West African state of The Gambia on Monday swore in an 11-member commission tasked with shedding light on summary executions, disappearances, torture, rape and other crimes under ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh. President Adama Barrow hailed the panel as a vital step towards national healing. In a tweet, he said: “Let us stand together […]

Rearrested Former Yahya Jammeh Captains Released On Bail

Rearrested Former Yahya Jammeh Captains Released On Bail

Rearrested former members of the Gambia Armed Forces, GAF, Captains Swandi Camara and Baboucarr Jarju, have been released on bail yesterday, 22 June 2017, around 2pm, at the police headquarters in Banjul. According to sources at Police headquarters, the duo was granted bail and asked to report to Police headquarters from today. Sources said that […]

Talking Human Rights in the New Gambia

Talking Human Rights in the New Gambia

“This is the new Gambia,” Jobe, a Gambian taxi driver told me, as I arrived in the country for the first time since the inauguration of President Adama Barrow. Three months after erstwhile strongman Yahya Jammeh left Gambian soil, the capital, Banjul, is buzzing and Gambia, known as the “smiling coast of Africa,” is still […]

Gambia ‘Freezes’ Assets of Former President Yahya Jammeh

Gambia ‘Freezes’ Assets of Former President Yahya Jammeh

Hon. Abubacarr Tambedou, the attorney general and minister of Justice has revealed to journalists that they have obtained a court order freezing or placing a temporary hold on the locally known assets and companies directly associated with former President Yahya Jammeh. He made this revelation and more at a press conference held at his office […]

Gambia’s Former President Yahya Jammeh Stole $50 Million Before Leaving For Exile

Gambia’s Former President Yahya Jammeh Stole $50 Million Before Leaving For Exile

The Gambia’s former ruler Yahya Jammeh stole at least $50m from the state, the country’s justice minister said on Monday, in the first major anti-corruption move by the country’s new president. It’s the first time the new government of the west African country has put a figure on the amount it believes Jammeh plundered from […]

Yahya Jammeh reign of terror: Gambian wife’s anguish over missing husband

Yahya Jammeh reign of terror: Gambian wife’s anguish over missing husband

There were high expectations when The Gambia’s President Adama Barrow took over from long-time leader Yahya Jammeh. But three months since his inauguration, the BBC’s Umaru Fofana found that despair is already setting in. Just days after Yahya Jammeh lost the election to Adama Barrow, the prisons started emptying. Families were reunited, signifying an end […]

Has Democracy Failed in Africa?

Has Democracy Failed in Africa?

Out of 15 African countries which held elections in 2016, power changed hands only eight times. That’s according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. All eyes are set for the remaining elections this year. Four of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, Angola’s Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, […]

Gambia Thankful, Optimistic, but Challenges Lie Ahead

Gambia Thankful, Optimistic, but Challenges Lie Ahead

Since the departure of Gambia’s long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh, newly elected president Adama Barrow’s government has been taking steps to restore the economy, rule of law and political reforms after two decades of one-party rule. Gambia’s vice president recently visited the United States to “thank its partners for the help they provided during her nation’s […]

Yahya Jammehs’ relatives have enjoyed a privileged life but the good times may soon end

Yahya Jammehs’ relatives have enjoyed a privileged life but the good times may soon end

Not many vehicles take the right turn off the two lane tarmac road that connects the capital, Banjul, and this farming village in the south of the country, close to the Senegal border. Just a select few – the chosen ones – do. For only those related to the former president by blood, paternal blood, call […]

Malema Urges African Leaders To Gather Courage And Tell Zimbabwe president Mugabe To Go

Malema Urges African Leaders To Gather Courage And Tell Zimbabwe president Mugabe To Go

South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has urged the Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders to gather courage and tell President Robert Mugabe to say his ‘Goodbye’s and step down. Malema said the regional bloc, SADC, must draw courage and inspiration from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that forced […]

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