Gambia: Jammeh's Justice and the Shadow of Bensouda

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Banjul — This week in Gambia, the Truth Commission is ending probing the lawyers who established and entrenched the Yahya Jammeh dictatorship, without having called some of the most interesting witnesses. One of the elephants in the room is the outgoing prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda.

Continuing the work started three weeks earlier on former ruler Yahya Jammeh's judicial auxiliaries, Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) continued to go back in time by confronting a selection of former Ministers of Justice, chosen from among the 18 appointed in twenty years of dictatorship.

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