(JollofNews) – An opposition leader in the Gambia has described Saturday’s shooting of a 27-year-old Red Cross volunteer by armed Gambian soldiers in Manjai as a homicide that could have been avoided.

(JollofNews)– Authorities in the Gambia have launched an investigation into the shooting of a 27-year-old  volunteer of the Gambia Red Cross Society by armed soldiers on Saturday night. Ya Binta Jarju, 27, of Banjul, who also works as a cashier at Comfort Neon Sign, was killed after a local taxi[Read More…]

(JollofNews)–Security officials in the Gambia routinely torture people taken in as suspects or for interrogation, a Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, has claimed in a graphic new report. In his report to the 28th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council[Read More…]