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Gambia: Gambia Validates Truth Commission's Work and Promises Justice
JusticeInfo.net, 26 May 2022
It is a milestone for the future of The Gambia. On Wednesday 25 May, the government, after five months of deliberation, finally said how it intends to implement the recommendations… Read more »
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Gambia: Long-Awaited White Paper Recommends Prosecution of Ex-Dictator Jammeh
DW, 25 May 2022
Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations commission recommends prosecuting officials for rights violations and abuses committed during Yahya Jammeh's 22-year reign. Victims… Read more »
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Gambia: 'Peace Gambia' Conducts 2nd National Peace Conference
Foroyaa, 25 May 2022
The Peace Gambia organisation on Saturday conducted their 2nd national peace conference held at the University of The Gambia (UTG) Law Faculty Auditorium, Kanifing. Read more »
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Gambia: Govt to Immediately Suspend Public Officials Implicated in the TRRC Report
The Point, 27 May 2022
According to the Attorney General and Minister for Justice Dawda Jallow, the Gambia government would immediately suspend all public officials that are implicated in the TRRC… Read more »
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Gambia: Govt to Develop Implementation 'Logical Framework' for Proper Execution of TRRC Recommendations
The Point, 27 May 2022
The Gambia government has announced that it will develop an "Implementation Logical Framework" that would set out the roadmap for the implementation of the accepted TRRC… Read more »
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Gambia: July 22 Arch to Be Renamed 'Never Again Memorial Arch'
The Point, 26 May 2022
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice Dawda Jallow yesterday revealed that the Government of The Gambia will rename Arch 22 July to Never Again Memorial Arch in memory of… Read more »
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Gambia: Victims' Center Hails Govt White Paper, Urges Implementation
The Point, 31 May 2022
The Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violation in a statement has expressed delight in the release of the long-awaited White Paper on the TRRC Report and Recommendations… Read more »
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Gambia: Govt Accepts TRRC Recommendation to Prosecute Jammeh, 'Junglers' for Deyda's Murder
The Point, 26 May 2022
The Gambia government accepts that TRRC recommended that former President, Yahya Jammeh be investigated and prosecuted for the murder of Deyda Hydara, the disappearance of Chief… Read more »
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Gambia: Victims Optimistic After Release of Govt TRRC White Paper
The Point, 26 May 2022
Scores of victims have reacted to the government White Paper on the recommendations of the TRRC, which was released on Wednesday 25 May 2022, welcoming it as a move that gives them… Read more »
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Gambia: Spokesperson Highlights Govt Commitment to Release of TRRC White Paper
The Point, 26 May 2022
Ebrima G. Sankareh, the spokesperson of The Gambia government has outlined government's resolve which led to the release and publication of White Paper. Read more »
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Gambia: Govt Rejects TRRC's Recommendations to Ban Sowe, Sonko From Holding Public Office
The Point, 26 May 2022
According to the government's White Paper on the recommendations of the TRRC, The Gambia government rejected the recommendations to ban the Director of State Intelligence Agency… Read more »
Gambia Govt Validates Truth Commission's Work, Promises Justice
On May 25, 2022 the government after five months of deliberation, finally said it intends to implement the recommendations of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. Justice Minister Dawda Jallow said it has accepted all but two of the commission's 265 recommendations and announced the creation of a special court to prosecute alleged perpetrators, including senior officials and former president Yahya Jammeh.
Jammeh, living in exile in Equatorial Guinea since January 2017, ruled the small West African country with an iron fist. , using a paramilitary hit-squad called the Junglers which helped make at least 103 people disappear.
According to the report, Jammeh's crimes that were carried out by his hit-squad known as the Junglers, includes: the disappearance of at least 103 people; at least 19 incidents of illegal executions; the execution of 12 soldiers; the unlawful killing of former finance minister Ousman Koro Ceesay; the killing of at least 17 road users; the killing of 15 students; the murder of journalist Deyda Hydara; the murder of 67 West African migrants; the random execution of 27 other people; 41 deaths caused by the Presidential Alternative Treatment Programme for Aids; and 41 deaths caused by witch-hunting.
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Gambian Bai Lowe, accused of belonging to a death squad, appeared in court in Germany on April 25, 2022 on charges of crimes against humanity. Lowe is also a Read more »
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The 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants was the largest loss of life during the rule of former president Yahya Jammeh. About forty-four Ghanaians, nine Nigerians, ... Read more »
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The country's justice minister, Abubacarr Tambedou, has revealed that the government has obtained a court order to "freeze the locally known assets", including ... Read more »
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A former police officer has told the Truth Commission that he was demoted after refusing to take a concoction offered by Yahya Jammeh's witch hunters in January 2009. They were ... Read more »
