Search

Advanced search

Gambia

Gambia’s Truth Commission and Yahya Jammeh’s witch hunters

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 strange concoction, the victims all got seriously sick. Dozens allegedly died.

By Mustapha K. Darboe

Stop genocide against the Rohingya, Gambia asks the ICJ

Gambia: Battle of testimonies in Yankuba Touray’s trial

Gambia: Witnesses testify of rape by Yahya Jammeh

Gambia’s TRRC hears about sexual violence and torture against women

Gambia: Jammeh’s wealth to go to his victims

Gambia: top leader in 1994 coup admits to murder

The selective memory of Gambia’s former vice-president

Gambia: I betrayed the students injured by gunshots, confesses Dr Jallow

Gambia: twenty years later, student victims are still crying out for justice

Anger flares at the release of Gambia’s confessed killers

Gambia’s full terror exposed before the TRRC

Gambia: “The media was the most persecuted institution under Jammeh”

Will Fatou Bensouda face the Truth Commission in Gambia?

Key junta member Touray puts Gambia's truth commission to the test

Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh accused of rape

Gambia’s TRRC encounter with a man once feared

Being on Gambia’s TV without knowing it: Life of an opponent under Jammeh

Time for the truth in Gambia