(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…]

(JollofNews) – Amnesty International has called on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), its members and observer states to establish an investigation into human rights violations by the Gambian regime of President Yahya Jammeh.