The Gambia’s Minister of Justice has praised the “courage” of 23-year-old former beauty pageant Fatou “Toufah” Jallow after she publicly accused ex-President Yahya Jammeh of raping her when he was in office. Abubacarr Tambadou said he urged “all women and girls in the country to emulate Ms Jallow by speaking[Read More…]
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Ex-Gambian Minister Detained For Refusing To Give Incriminating Evidence At Truth Commission
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…]
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…]
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