Time for the truth in Gambia

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Since January 2019, Gambians have been glued to the public hearings of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). This commission was established to shed light on human rights violations committed during the military regime of Yahya Jammeh from July 1994 to January 2017. JusticeInfo.net brings together in a special focus its intensive coverage of what can be considered the event of the year 2019 in the field of transitional justice.
Time for the truth in Gambia
Hearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of The Gambia (TRRC)
How Gambia’s truth commission findings shaped the Sonko trial
4 March 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
The trial of Ousman Sonko, former Interior minister of The Gambia, resumes today in Switzerland. Parties are expected to present their closing arguments. A striking fact of the evidence put before the Swiss court last January was [...]
Transitional justice in The Gambia - President Adama Barrow has published a plan to implement the recommendations of the Truth Commission. Is The Gambia a step closer to moving on with trials and reparations?
1 June 2023 by Mariam Sankanu
On May 12, the Gambian president Adama Barrow has issued an implementation plan of the 2021 recommendations of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. He has announced a 9-million euro pledge by the European Union. A [...]
Gambian President Adama Barrow sits in a chair at an international diplomatic event. In the foreground: a small flag of Gambia. Gambia: hope for justice fades 9 months after the Truth Commission report
30 September 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Victims and rights activists have raised concerns about the lack of Gambian government’s implementation plan of the 2021 Truth Commission’s recommendations. The vetting process is largely incomplete; the strategy for trials is unk [...]
Ensa Badgie prepares to testify (book in hand) at a Gambia Truth Commission (TRCC) hearing, next to an employee Gambia: Suspect officials remain, as government stalls on TRC recommendations
5 September 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Activists are voicing the alarm. After its inquiry, the Gambia Truth Commission recommended that some 90 officials, largely in the security sector, be banned from public office or prosecuted. The government has committed itse [...]
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Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow speaks during a press conference on the Trutch Commission's report
26 May 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia validates Truth Commission's work and promises justice 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 of the Truth Commission. Justice Minister Dawda J [...]
Amnesty recommanded for Sanna Sabally
21 March 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Who got amnesty from Gambia’s Truth commission, and who didn’t On March 16, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission submitted its final recommendations to the government on 25 amnesty applications. Eight of them were denied. Former number 2 of the military junta Sanna Saball [...]
Portrait of Yahya Jammeh crossed out
21 January 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
TRRC Final Report: What must Gambia do to avoid another Jammeh In December, the final report of Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) was finally published, after two and a half years of work. Beyond its recommendations for prosecutions, these are its key findings a [...]
Yahya Jammeh in Gambia
7 January 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
TRRC Final report: Gambia between prosecutions and amnesties On Christmas Eve, six months after it was first announced, the final report of the Gambia Truth Commission (TRRC) was made public. Primarily, in its first volume, it has recommended dozens of prosecutions and, unsurprisingly, targ [...]
Lamin Sise (chairman of the gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission) presents the final report of the TRRC to Adama Barrow (president on the Gambia)
26 November 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Truth Commission report hangs on election result After months of procrastination, Gambian President Adama Barrow received, on Thursday November 25, the final report of the Gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). It is yet to be made public, and its recom [...]
The Gambia Truth Commission's courtroom is empty
30 September 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
In Gambia, reconciliation still on the back burner The final report of Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission was expected today, but may be further delayed. After nearly three years of transitional justice, the country remains divided, and reconciliation within [...]
Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and current President Adama Barrow
9 September 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: "We want Truth Commission’s final report binned" On September 30, the Gambian Truth Commission should submit its final report. But the party of former dictator Yahya Jammeh has made it clear, after the 4 September announcement of its alliance with current president Adama Barrow’ [...]
Demonstration by victims of the Jammeh regime
30 July 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission puts a price on reparations The final report of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, expected to be submitted today to the President of Gambia, has been postponed to September 30. Meanwhile the Commission has clarified what it has spent in r [...]
Soldier in front of Arch 22 in Banjul, Gambia
6 July 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Government and Truth Commission clash over Jammeh’s Arch The “Arch 22” is an imposing monument built by Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh to the glory of his “revolution”. The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission wants to make it a memorial to Jammeh’s victims. But the g [...]
Scene of reconciliation at the TRRC in Gambia
1 June 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When it is time for reconciliation After more than two years of often spectacular public hearings, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission closed its hearings on May 28. It will present its report and recommendations in July. But a lesser known as [...]
The Gambia Truth commission (TRRC) in the shadow of Fatou Bensouda
13 May 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh's justice and the shadow of Bensouda 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 i [...]
Fafa Mbai
3 May 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When “legal junglers” defend their role under military rule The Yahya Jammeh regime relied on lawyers to draft and enact decrees that got rid of fundamental human rights. Some of them, including the first Minister of Justice under the military junta, were called to testify before Gambia’s [...]
Yahya Jammeh and truth commission witnesses in The Gambia
8 April 2021 by Bronwen Cowley
Gambia: spotlight on the extraordinary work of the Truth Commission  IN CAMERA | Episode 3 > In Gambia, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) is doing an extraordinary job of investigating and bringing to light the violations committed during the regime of Yahya Jammeh. Th [...]
Sheriff Tambadou témoigne devant la commission vérité en Gambie
8 April 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: how Jammeh weaponized the law Gambia’s Truth Commission is conducting a series of hearings with members of the judiciary, who tell how the former regime of Yahya Jammeh set up a system to control the laws, the courts and hinder lawyer’s practice.
Toufah Jallow an another women watch the horizon from a Gambian beach
12 March 2021 by Marion Volkmann-Brandau and Toufah Jallow
Sexual violence: Gambia’s Truth Commission must not miss its last chance The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in Gambia has under-investigated and missed acknowledging sexual violence under Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship, Marion Volkmann-Brandau, human rights lawyer, and Toufah Jallow, Gam [...]
Bubacarr Bah testifies before the Truth Commission (TRRC) in The Gambia
11 March 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The story of a government-sanctioned massacre and its cover-up After establishing that the July 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants was perpetrated by state authorities, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has exposed the government’s cover-up that follow [...]
Yahyah Jammehon 22 July 2016 (Gambia)
2 March 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Did Jammeh order the killing of migrants? This is the largest massacre committed during the 22 years of Yahya Jammeh's reign in the Gambia. More than fifty migrants were executed in July 2005. Clear evidence that it was carried out on the orders of the government was so f [...]
Lamin Darboe testifies before the TRRC in Gambia
9 February 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia Truth Commission: Darboe, the faithful silent agent of the NIA With lot of expectations, a notorious member of a ‘Special Operations Unit’ involved in allegations of torture under Yahya Jammeh’s rule, appeared before the Gambian Truth Commission. Allegedly, Lamin Darboe arrested at least 115 [...]
Omar Cham testifies befor the Trutch Commission (TRRC) in Gambia.
18 January 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission hears the NIA torturers The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has continued to hear from former members of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Torture, extortion, fabrication of evidence, interference with the judiciary and with electi [...]
11 January 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The spy chief who knew too much or not enough Ousman Sowe is the current director of the once feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in the Gambia. In the early 2000's, he was the NIA head of investigations. Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission he cl [...]
1 December 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Major Baaji, Janus of the Gambian Intelligence Agency For a year under the military dictatorship, Major Lamin Bo Baaji was the director of Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Yet despite evidence put forward by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, he claimed [...]
16 November 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When Jammeh’s NIA were “beating the truth out of people” In his 22-year rule, Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh allegedly put down several coups. In their aftermaths, the purported participants made confessions on television. Details of how these were obtained and how political opp [...]
2 November 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh’s Intelligence in spotlight The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Junglers were the two main weapons of Yahya Jammeh’s regime in Gambia. In the past two weeks, the country’s Truth Commission hearings on the NIA have provided a rare insight into the [...]
26 October 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Hippocratic betrayal in Gambia Dr Tamsir Mbowe, a former Health Minister, was a highly expected witness before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. In 2007 he was the director of former president Yahya Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS treatment programme [...]
19 October 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: "The President shortened the lives of these people, they were not supposed to die" On October 12, public hearings resumed before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission after a two-month break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. More doctors and lab technicians have come to testify on the fanciful – [...]
7 September 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission in a time of uncertainty All was going according to schedule at the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia. Until the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Public hearings were suspended for the second time last month. An extension of the Comm [...]
28 July 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh's magic anti-AIDS potion did not exist Yahya Jammeh claimed he would rule Gambia for a billion years. The head of State also claimed he would treat a range of diseases including asthma, infertility and HIV/AIDS. The later “treatment”, which started in 2007, is now bein [...]
20 July 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: when Jammeh was driving at break-neck speed Not only does former president of Gambia Yahya Jammeh love cars, but he is remembered for his high-speed convoys. In the second week of July, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission began probing into the ex-ruler's c [...]
14 July 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
David Colley, Gambia’s worst prison director ever It was a marathon testimony. Over three days David Colley, the longest serving director general of the infamous Mile 2 prison, appeared before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in Gambia. Colley’s time is rememb [...]
6 July 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Tambadou quits: Will Gambia’s transition stay on course? Abubakarr Tambadou, Gambia’s Minister of Justice, resigned on June 25 to join a United Nations international tribunal. Tambadou has been a driving force behind the transitional justice process in his country and its strongest advo [...]
22 June 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
The truth behind the walls of Mile 2 prison, Jammeh’s “five-star hotel” During his 22-year rule, Gambia’s leader Yahya Jammeh was known for swearing in public and threatening his fellow citizens. One of his favorite threats was: ‘I will send you to my five-star hotel’. This was his euphemism for Mile [...]
16 June 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Correa, a ‘Jungler’ charged in the US: What Gambia’s Truth Commission has heard After a US Court indicted him on June 11 on torture charges, Gambian national Michael Sang Correa, 41, will be the very first member of then-president Yahya Jammeh’s “Junglers” death squad to be prosecuted. But before the country’ [...]
2 June 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The truth shall set you free – or not What to do with confessed killers? Who decides who is truthful enough to be released after their testimony before the Truth commission? These are questions at the heart of the thorny issue of the “Junglers”, a group of hitmen resp [...]
15 May 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The uncompleted search for the disappeared In April 2019, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission successfully exhumed the bodies of seven former soldiers who had been thrown into a mass grave in 1994. A year later their identity is still unknown. And no other [...]
7 May 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Ousman Sonko: a view on the Swiss case, from Gambia’s Truth Commission Gambia’s former Interior Minister Ousman Sonko has been imprisoned in Switzerland for more than three years. A number of witnesses before the country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission have implicated him in a numb [...]
12 March 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When Jammeh was turning crocodile Ebou Jarju, a steward, and Ensa Keita, a gravel and sand provider, are civilians who once got to work for former president Yahya Jammeh, directly or close enough. And they were not the only ones to have paid a heavy price for it, [...]
25 February 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Finger pointing in the security forces Since the start of its public hearings in January 2019, the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has exposed multiple abuses perpetrated by all security services under Yahya Jammeh's regime. Last week, a Gambi [...]
14 February 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The Supreme Islamic Council pointed at for its obedience to Jammeh Their turn may come in response to criticism when the hearings of the Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission resume on Monday, 17 February. The leaders of the Supreme Islamic Council were seriously questioned fo [...]
27 January 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When imams opposed “the leader of the people of faith” Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has resumed its public hearings. It has heard testimonies of clerics who dared challenging former president Yahya Jammeh, after he was declared a religious leader by a subs [...]
20 January 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe and Thierry Cruvellier
Essa Faal: “We don’t want the truth commission to be seen as a toothless bulldog” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Essa Faal Legal Counsel of Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission resumes its public hearings on January 20. For one [...]
13 January 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe
One year of truth-telling in the Gambia The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has been the event of the year in the field of transitional justice. It provided spectacular testimonies, from senior perpetrators in particular, while departing from s [...]
10 December 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: On the trail of deadly witch doctors in Jammeh’s region The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has been holding public hearings in different villages in Gambia’s countryside. Trying to find out who was responsible for a witch hunt, allegedly ordered by former president Ya [...]
22 November 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission and Yahya Jammeh’s witch hunters The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has begun to hold hearings outside Gambia’s capital city. It is touring villages where hundreds of citizens were victims in 2009 of mysterious witch hunters. Forced to drink a s [...]
1 November 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Witnesses testify of rape by Yahya Jammeh Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has continued to hear testimonies about sexual abuse under the military regime of Yahya Jammeh. Witnesses have portrayed the former president as a sexual predator, includin [...]
28 October 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s TRRC hears about sexual violence and torture against women The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has opened a session on gender-based violence. Several victims have testified about abuse, including rape, by paramilitary agents. Testimonies are now expected to narrow down on [...]
21 October 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh’s wealth to go to his victims A first payment of about 1 million dollars to the new Reparations Fund of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has been made, announced Gambia’s Minister of Justice on October 7. This is taken from the seized asset [...]
18 October 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: top leader in 1994 coup admits to murder Former Defense minister Edward Singhateh admitted ordering the execution of several soldiers on November 11, 1994, in his much-awaited testimony yesterday October 17 before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. A f [...]
7 October 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
The selective memory of Gambia’s former vice-president Isatou Njie Saidy was Gambia’s vice-president during twenty years of the 22-year rule of Yahya Jammeh. Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission she admitted endorsing the order sending the army to crush a studen [...]
23 September 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: I betrayed the students injured by gunshots, confesses Dr Jallow The order came from the State House, she explained. On September 19, before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, Dr Mariatou Jallow confessed that she seized the medical records of students who had been shot by th [...]
5 September 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: twenty years later, student victims are still crying out for justice Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in The Gambia took a break to go and meet the diaspora, it started to hear testimonies on the repression of a student protest that led to the death of at least fourteen s [...]
27 August 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Anger flares at the release of Gambia’s confessed killers Late July a few former members of the Junglers, a group of hitmen under the military regime, testified before the Truth, reconciliation and reparations Commission in Gambia. They confessed to many killings. Within days, their rele [...]
26 July 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s full terror exposed before the TRRC There seem to be no limit to what will be revealed before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). This week, the first three members of former president Yahya Jammeh’s infamous hit squad – the Junglers – [...]
15 July 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: “The media was the most persecuted institution under Jammeh” It is the turn of journalists to be heard by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia. In 22 years, 140 incidents of arrests and 15 arbitrary closures of media houses were recorded. There were cases of to [...]
11 July 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier and Mustapha K. Darboe
Will Fatou Bensouda face the Truth Commission in Gambia? Before speaking on behalf of the victims of serious crimes as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda faithfully served, in the highest judicial offices, a military dictatorship in her country, the Gam [...]
28 June 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Key junta member Touray puts Gambia's truth commission to the test “This is the first time the powers of this Commission have been so blatantly challenged,” said the Lead Counsel of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on June 26. On that morning, Yankuba Touray, a key memb [...]
24 June 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s TRRC encounter with a man once feared The sensation last week before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia was the testimony of General Alagie Martin. A fiercely loyal officer to former dictator Yahya Jammeh, he admitted torture – he calle [...]
14 June 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Being on Gambia’s TV without knowing it: Life of an opponent under Jammeh Public hearings before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission have resumed on June 10 in Gambia. This week’s hearings were devoted to the fate of members of the main political opposition party. Including Amadou Sanne [...]
11 June 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Who are the key players at Gambia’s Truth Commission Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has resumed its public hearings on June 10. Since January the TRRC has heard 57 witnesses in sessions that were particularly eventful and truth-revealing. It has become a m [...]
4 June 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s transition: Expensive justice for a poor, little country The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia runs a 2,8 million dollars budget for 2019. It is part of a larger effort in transitional justice programs that costs a lot in this poor country. One of the surpri [...]
26 April 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
TRRC in Gambia: Sanna Sabally’s extraordinary moment of truth It was a historical moment this week for all Gambians and for the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). Sanna Sabally, the former number 2 of the military junta led by Yahya Jammeh, came from abroad to come forw [...]
23 April 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia unearths its past While the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission continues to hear high-profile testimonies in relation to the killing of soldiers in November 1994, a forensic team has unearthed the remains of seven bodies. They are like [...]
15 April 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
The cost of lying to Gambia’s Truth Commission After the first arrest and indictment of a witness before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission, two other soldiers whose testimonies were deemed untruthful were respectively sued for perjury and dismissed from the a [...]
9 April 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: You’d better be truthful before the Truth commission Last week, a former Army soldier was arrested and charged with murder in the Gambia. It was only two weeks after he had testified – in a way that was deemed uncooperative – before the country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation [...]
22 March 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s searching the truth on summary executions The Truth Commission has gone deeper into the November 1994 killings of soldiers. But there are doubts as to whether perpetrators are telling the whole truth. Meanwhile, the Commission has started its forensic work, even if it has [...]
6 March 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission shows it has teeth Two former high-level officials under the military regime were indicted in Gambia for allegedly tampering with a witness before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission. After two months of high-profile public hearings [...]
1 March 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Evidence at Gambia’s Truth Commission gets closer to former ruler In the Gambia, two witnesses before the country’s Truth Commission, including the first confessed killer, have implicated former president Yahya Jammeh in ordering killings of soldiers in November 1994 and of a minister in June 19 [...]
19 February 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
First confessions at Gambia’s Truth Commission The first public confession from a perpetrator and a visit to the headquarters of the former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) were the highlights of the past week at the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) in [...]
7 February 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When reparations can’t wait The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) in Gambia keeps following its own singular path. Through high-profile and widely watched public hearings it seems to be running its investigations live instead of after t [...]
28 January 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
A good medic under Gambia’s terror The eighth witness before the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission was a man many former prisoners remembered with a smile. Babucarr Jatta had only been trained in first aid, but he was the one victims of tortu [...]
22 January 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Uncomfortable truths on the 1994 executions The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission has continued to hear high-profile testimonies from ex-members of Yahya Jammeh’s former military junta. New details on the executions that took place on 11 November 1994 were off [...]
15 January 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Sensitive truths at the Gambia’s truth commission The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) has opened its public hearings on January 7. Three former officers came to testify about their ordeal during and after the 22 July 1994 military coup. ‘We never wanted to [...]
15 October 2018 by Claire Bargelès
What model for Gambia’s truth commission? Gambia officially inaugurates its Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission this Monday October 15. The Commission is one of the key promises of President Adama Barrow after his election victory over Yahya Jammeh in Decembe [...]
5 October 2018 by Claire Bargelès
Truth Commission meets with Gambians Nearly two years after elections that ended the reign of dictator Yahya Jammeh, a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission will soon start work in Gambia. Its inauguration is scheduled for October 15. But for the moment, G [...]