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Enforced disappearances in The Gambia - Photos of people who disappeared during Yahya Jammeh's reign.

The disappeared in The Gambia, a missing investigation

In its recently disclosed implementation plan, the Gambian government says it will set up a task force to complete and expand the work accomplished by the Truth commission on enforced disappearances. Four cases involving five individuals were left “unresolved” by the Commission. And there may be more. Victims’ families are in limbo. Will the task […]

By Mariam Sankanu (our correspondent in Banjul)

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?

Ousman Sonko indicted in Switzerland for crimes against humanity in Gambia

Gambian Ousman Sonko will be tried for crimes against humanity in Switzerland

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Gambian trial in Germany: I posed as a “Jungler”, defendant says

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

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

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

A patrol of Senegalese soldiers in the forest of Casamance (Blaze Forest)

Swiss first step to investigate environmental crimes in Gambia

Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow and Emmanuel Joof present white paper at press conference

Banjul working towards a hybrid Gambia-ECOWAS court

Bai Lowe (a

Gambian trial in Germany: the thin line between witness and suspect

Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow speaks during a press conference on the Trutch Commission's report

Gambia validates Truth Commission's work and promises justice

Yahya Jammeh and a

Gambia: Will the government prosecute returned Jammeh hit-men

In Gambia, a woman holds a sign saying

Gambian dictatorship’s crimes go on trial in Germany

Amnesty recommanded for Sanna Sabally

Who got amnesty from Gambia’s Truth commission, and who didn’t

Ousman Sonko

Five years on, the slow wheels of Swiss justice in Gambian case

Portrait of Yahya Jammeh crossed out

TRRC Final Report: What must Gambia do to avoid another Jammeh

Yahya Jammeh in Gambia

TRRC Final report: Gambia between prosecutions and amnesties

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)

Gambia: Truth Commission report hangs on election result

Fatou Bensouda sits in front of a microphone. In the background, a portrait of Yahya Jammeh and the Gambian flag.

Fatou Bensouda: “I didn’t know what was happening under Jammeh”