An army officer Monday said he was among a group of men who murdered Gambian editor Deyda Hydara in 2004 on the direct orders of then-President Yahya Jammeh, Agence France-Press reported. In testimony before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, which was broadcast on the local Kerr Fatou Network, Lieutenant[Read More…]
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Supreme Court Tosses Ex-Finance Minister’s Attempts To Have Criminal Record Expunged
A former Gambian Finance minister who was jailed in the previous regime of Yahya Jammeh has lost his fight to get his criminal record expunged. Amadou Sanneh, national treasurer of the opposition United Democratic (UDP), was in 2013 convicted by special criminal court judge of sedition and sentenced to up[Read More…]
Gambian Police Officer Charged With Murder Of University Student
A serving Gambian police constable who plunged a knifed into a 25-year-old man and left him to died in a pool of his own blood has been charged with murder. First Class Constable Lamin Trawally allegedly stabbed Kebba Secka, a Business and Administration student of the University of the Gambia[Read More…]
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