(JollofNews) – Inside Senegal’s state penitentiary, jailed minors form an orderly queue. They are being driven away from the prison in Thiès to enter a studio and fight. Senegal is experimenting with a new form of restorative justice where these child prisoners – whose offenses range from violence to theft[Read More…]
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Prominent Gambian Activist Facing Removal From Britain
(JollofNews) – Salif Joof looked nervously at his door as he welcomed me into the three bedroom house he shares with his partner. “I am a dead man walking,” he said. The 38-year-old renown Gambian activist is facing deportation to his native country after his asylum application was refused by[Read More…]
US-Based Gambian Activist Begins Jail Sentence For Gambia Coup Plot
(JollofNews) – A Gambian activist has begun serving time in an American jail for his involvement in the December 2014 ill-fated plot to overthrow the Gambian regime of President Yahya Jammeh. Banka Manneh, a US resident who is chairman of the Gambia Civil Society Associations, was sentenced in May to[Read More…]
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