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…]
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Gambia: Charges Against Yankuba Touray, FJC Shelved
State prosecutors in the Gambia Wednesday withdrew all charges against two senior officials of the previous regime of Yahya Jammeh accused of interfering with the work of the ongoing truth commission. Fatoumata Jahumpa-Ceesay, a former speaker of the Gambia’s National Assembly and Yankuba Touray, a former AFPRC junta member and[Read More…]
Gambia: NADD, The Political Paradise That Never Was
(JollofNews) – If you were in the Gambia at the period of the birth of the National Alliance for Democracy and Development (best known by its acronym as NADD) in 2005, and you were a believer of the possibility of a democratic change in Gambia, then you probably were in[Read More…]
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