Human Rights Watch has joined 16 other groups in support of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances’ call for a hybrid court to prosecute crimes during the presidency of Yahya Jammeh in Gambia and for a new international inquiry of a 2005 massacre of West African immigrants. The[Read More…]
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Senegal Intercepts Over 100 Mostly Gambian Migrants Off Southern Coast
Security agents intercepted a boat with 103 mostly Gambian migrants, believed to be heading for Europe, off Senegal’s southern coast overnight Monday, the Senegalese Press Agency (APS) has reported. Of the 103 men, are aged 18-24, 102 are Gambian nationals and one is a Bissau-Guinean citizen living in Gambia, the[Read More…]
Swiss Investigators Go To Gambia For Sonko Case
Former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, suspected of crimes against humanity, is to stay in a Swiss jail until at least the end of October, after his appeal was rejected by the Federal Criminal Court, media reports said on Sunday. The court decision was based on a risk that he might[Read More…]
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