A former Gambian minister in the erstwhile government of Yahya Jammeh who refused to incriminate himself at the truth commission was Monday charged with murder. Yankuba Touray, a former member of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC), which toppled the Jawara government in 1994 and ruled the Gambia until[Read More…]
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Gambia: How Jammeh Plotted To Kill Me After He Failed To Silence My Newspaper
“If you stay in this country in the next 24 hours, you are dead. Disappear now” Thankfully, there are quite a number of patriotic folks in our combined security services – the police, the army, and even the once feared and notorious NIA – who did not either partake nor[Read More…]
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: To My Fellow Men Deniers Of Rape Stories
Dear Fellow Man, ‘My silence was my protection. It was my protection from having to face the unthinkable. To speak the unspeakable. And questioning myself: why did I not speak out as a child? The child understands that perfectly, but as you moved to adulthood you realise that those who[Read More…]
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