A former minister who held various cabinet positions in the previous regime of Yahya Jammeh has been arrested and detained by police. Yankuba Touray was taken into state custody this morning after he refused to give self-incriminating evidence at the truth and reconciliation commission probing alleged atrocities committed by former leader[Read More…]
Human Rights
A Beauty Queen Accuses Former Gambian President Of Rape: ‘I Literally Stumbled Out Of There’
Five years ago, the president of Gambia crowned 18-year-old Fatou Jallow the winner of the nation’s top beauty pageant with a lecture to her and other contestants: Do not rush to marry, he said, but use the pageant’s scholarship prize to fulfill your dreams. But the president, Yahya Jammeh, soon[Read More…]
Gambia Urged To Stop Threatening Anti-Barrow Critics
A prominent Gambian human rights activist has called on the Gambia Government of President Adama Barrow and its supporters to nip in the bud threats to opposition supporters and critics. Fatou Jagne-Senghor, the West Africa director of Article 19, a London-based pro-freedom of expression organisation, said during the 22-year rule[Read More…]
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