The US Justice Department has indicted two Gambian men on multiple counts of fraud involving a conspiracy to commit bank and mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. Omar Leigh, 25, of Smyrna, GA, and Kolley Touray, 39, of Milwaukee, WI, were indicted by a federal grand jury on one felony[Read More…]
Human Rights
Gambia: 18 Years Later, April 10th & 11th Victims Still Cry For Justice
This year yet again marks another anniversary when 14 Gambian children including a Red Cross volunteer where gunned to death by the security forces of the Republic of the Gambia. For 18 years, scores of survivors of this massacre continue to live with pain, poverty and deprivation without any support[Read More…]
Democracy Watch Gambia To Challenge Constitutional Review Commission Act 2017
Democracy Watch Gambia (DWG) is filing a suit at the Supreme Court of the Gambia to challenge the country’s Constitutional Review Commission Act 2017 which was passed by the National Assembly on 11th December 2017 and assented to by President Adama Barrow on11th January 2018. According to DWG, the Act[Read More…]