(AFP) – Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh ordered the massacre of some 30 migrants he said were “mercenaries” sent to topple him in 2005, a member of the former strongman’s hit squad told a truth commission on Tuesday. The testimony comes a day after another army officer accused Jammeh[Read More…]
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Gambia: Police Appeal For Calm As Angry Mob Storm Serrekunda Police Station
Gambia’s Inspector General of Police is reaching out to a group of angry youths who have stormed a local police station to demand answers about the death of a local shop owner. Ousman Darboe, is reported to have died shortly after his release from detention at the Police Anti Crime[Read More…]
Gambia: “Neither Dictatorship Nor Democracy, Paradise Nor Hell”
by Alagi Yorro Jallow A hundred years from now, people still going to be talking about President Yahya Jammeh. He recognized that, as a poster child, he had become a symbol in which larger social, economic and political forces were condensed. As a person, Yahya Jammeh lived in a way[Read More…]
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