Dr Omar Janneh Most adult Gambians know that atrocious human rights abuses occurred at the NIA (now SIS) and elsewhere in the 22 years of Jammeh’s brutal regime which need to be preserved for later generations. President Barrow’s government thought that these human rights abuses were of sufficient gravity that[Read More…]
Human Rights
Forced To Beg, Senegal’s ‘Talibes’ Face Exploitation And Abuse
(JollofNews) – An eight-year-old boy fled his Koranic school in Saint-Louis, Senegal this month after he said a teacher threatened to beat him for not earning enough money begging on the street. Hours later, alone in the corner of a low-lit bus station, he was raped by a teenager. The[Read More…]
Dr. Omar Janneh: The Gambia’s TRRC, Should We Expect Better From The Subsequent Sessions?
Call it im/material, but I think it is quite something that some witnesses at The Gambia’s TRRC are believed to have given some unreliable testimonies under oath, necessitating them to be described as “dirtying the pages of history”. I wonder if the inclusion of the second “R, reparations” in the[Read More…]

