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Mustapha K. Darboe

The Gambia - Correspondent
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 [...]
12 March 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Picture exhibition displays Gambian former dictator’s abuse Two years after Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh left power and took asylum in Equatorial Guinea, British freelance photographers Jason Florio, Helen Jones Florio and American Katherine Taylor have compiled dozens of photogra [...]
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 [...]