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Mustapha K. Darboe

The Gambia - Correspondent

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Mustapha K. Darboe has been the correspondent of JusticeInfo.Net in The Gambia since January 2019. He is a journalist with the country’s second largest online platform, Kerr Fatou. A four-time national journalism awards winner, Mustapha is currently the vice-president of the Gambia Press Union, and the correspondent in Banjul for the Turkey News Agency (Anadolu Agency). He is a passionate blogger and in 2018 he has authored an e-book, "Playbook of a Tyrant", inspired by the 22-year dictatorship under former president Yahya Jammeh.

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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 unknown; the reparations budget is postponed. And there seems to be no political will at the president’s office.
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 [...]
The headquarters of the Gambian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) seen from above. Portrait of Ebrima Solo Sandeng in the inset. Gambia: death penalty for former leaders of the national intelligence agency
18 July 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
On July 13, 6 members of the top leadership of the National Intelligence Agency, a place notorious for torture and disappearance under the regime of Yahya Jammeh (1994-2017), were sentenced to death for their role in the 2016 kill [...]
A patrol of Senegalese soldiers in the forest of Casamance (Blaze Forest) Swiss first step to investigate environmental crimes in Gambia
27 June 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Three years ago, the Swiss NGO TRIAL International filed a complaint against a Swiss businessman operating in the Gambia with the complicity of its former president Yahya Jammeh. The Swiss national is accused of having committed a [...]
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Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow and Emmanuel Joof present white paper at press conference
23 June 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Banjul working towards a hybrid Gambia-ECOWAS court In an interview with Justice Info Gambia’s Justice minister Dawda Jallow said his government has the political will to deliver justice for past crimes. No clear strategy has been explained yet and some victims doubt the government [...]
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 [...]
Yahya Jammeh and a
12 May 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Will the government prosecute returned Jammeh hit-men Nine former soldiers and members of the infamous “Junglers” hit-squad of former president Yahya Jammeh have returned to Gambia from exile and remain at large. Pending a government White Paper on the implementation of the Truth Com [...]
In Gambia, a woman holds a sign saying
25 April 2022 by Mustapha Darboe
Gambian dictatorship’s crimes go on trial in Germany On April 25, the trial of a former member of a hit squad – known as the “Junglers” – under Yahya Jammeh’s rule in The Gambia opens before a German court. Baboucar “Bai” Lowe is a self-confessed former driver of this paramilitary g [...]
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 [...]
Yankuba Touray (with his lawyer in the picture) sentenced to death in Gambia
16 July 2021 by By Mustapha K. Darboe
Yankuba Touray sentenced to death in Gambia On July 14, Yankuba Touray was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The former Minister of Local Government in the early days of Gambia’s military junta is the first former senior member of Yahya Jammeh’s regime to be tr [...]
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 [...]
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