Gambian national Joachim Cardos, 43, was jailed for eight years for rape and sentenced to a further three years for dealing the Class B drug cannabis. Despite a law that foreign nationals guilty of serious crimes should automatically be deported, the sex offender launched a human rights challenge, arguing that[Read More…]
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Gambia: Ousman Sonko’s Lamin Rape Case On Radio Veritas
Ousman Sonko, one-time interior minister in the Jammeh dispensation, is still a talking point in The Gambia as his issue cropped up once again in an educative sexual and reproductive health program on Radio Veritas on Thursday. Almost ten years ago, Ousman Sonko raped an under-aged girl in his car[Read More…]
Woman Pays Dearly For Accusing Senegal Opposition Leader Of Rape
Adji Sarr, who has accused Senegal’s opposition leader of rape, has learned the consequences of speaking out about sexual abuse in the conservative West African country the hard way. Sarr, who is in her early 20s, in February told police that opposition leader Ousmane Sonko had forced her to sleep[Read More…]
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