Jaha Dukureh was a young mother of three with little campaigning experience when she started a movement in the Gambia to end female genital mutilation, backed by the Guardian. In the seven years that followed she advised Barack Obama in the US, where she was then living, helped have FGM[Read More…]
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Gambia: Fatou Bensouda – ‘I Didn’t Know What Was Happening Under Jammeh’
By Thierry Cruvellier For the first time ever, former International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda talks about the time when she served under the dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh in the Gambia. She claims she knew nothing of the serious human rights violations that were committed while she held top posts in the[Read More…]
Gambia 2021: Halifa Sallah Asks Gambian Voters For Chance To End Decades Of Pain, Poverty
An opposition leader in the Gambia has called on voters to back him in the polls to end the many decades of poverty and economic stagnation. Halifa Sallah, 68, of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) said the Gambian people have been let down by various political[Read More…]
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