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Gambia: No Justice for 2005 Massacre of Migrants

21.07.2020 - (Last modified: 15.07.2021)
The families of more than 50 Ghanaian and other West African migrants killed in The Gambia and Senegal 15 years ago have...

Gambia: US charges alleged ‘Death Squad’ member with Torture

12.06.2020 - (Last modified: 16.06.2020)
The indictment in the United States on 11 June 2020 of an alleged former Gambian “death squad” member on torture charges...
Portrait of Michael Corrrea in uniform.
Between 2014 and 2017, The Gambia exported nearly 163 million US dollars-worth of rosewood, a rare and precious tree spe...
Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh seems to be preparing the ground for a return to The Gambia. TRIAL International r...

The Gambia: The ear of Banjul

14.11.2019 - (Last modified: 15.09.2021)
Silvia Lorenzi is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Banjul, The Gambia’s capital. She has been working with...

Gambia: Women accuse ex-President of sexual violence

26.06.2019 - (Last modified: 22.07.2019)
Yahya Jammeh reportedly forced young women to have sex with him. Some of them received a state salary and worked at the...
Five United Nations human rights monitors have urged the UN and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) t...

Is The Gambia ready to confront its past?

21.01.2019 - (Last modified: 20.10.2020)
On 7 January 2019, the Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission (TRRC) held its first session in the Gambian ca...
The former Gambian dictator's death squads, known as "Junglers", have killed at least 45 individuals in the region of Ca...
Victims Seek Justice for 2005 Killings Linked to Ex-President Jammeh Two Togolese have recently been discovered to be a...
Ghanaian Groups Urge Prosecution of Yahya Jammeh A paramilitary unit controlled by then-Gambian president Yahya Jamme...
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Dictator Obiang Cannot “Protect” Yahya Jammeh From Justice

29.01.2018 - (Last modified: 02.02.2018)
Equatorial Guinea Legally Bound to “Prosecute or Extradite” Exiled Gambian Dictator   (Banjul, The Gambia, Janu...