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In Gambia, a special tribunal has been set up in partnership with Ecowas to try crimes committed under the dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh. The question now is how it will be funded. Photo: In 2017, Jammeh prepares to leave Gambia for Equatorial Guinea. He smiles and waves to the crowd at the door of a plane.
Gambia: a special court in search of funds
18 March 2025 by Mariam Sankanu (our correspondent in Banjul)
In Gambia, a special tribunal has been set up in partnership with Ecowas to try crimes committed under the dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh. The question now is how it will be funded.
The deposed former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh found refuge in Equatorial Guinea in 2017. Could he return to Gambia to face trial? Photo: Teodoro Obiang, President of Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial Guinea and Jammeh’s equation
27 February 2025 by Lucas Olo Fernandes (for Justice Info)
The prospect of trying former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh has grown bigger with the plan of a tribunal supported by the regional political organization ECOWAS. But there’s a snag: how to get him out of his protected exile in Equ [...]
Will there soon be trials for Yahya Jammeh's crimes in Gambia? - Photo: Gambian President Adama Barrow adopts a wait-and-see stance at a meeting of African countries belonging to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Gambia: the end of the wait-and-see strategy?
17 May 2024 by Mariam Sankanu (our correspondent in Banjul)
On April 22, two bills expected to kickstart the prosecution process for crimes committed under the 22-year rule of former President Yahya Jammeh were passed at the Gambian Parliament. They should make it possible to establish a h [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
Fatou Bensouda sits in front of a microphone. In the background, a portrait of Yahya Jammeh and the Gambian flag.
4 November 2021 by Thierry Cruvellier
Fatou Bensouda: “I didn’t know what was happening under Jammeh” For the first time ever, former International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda talks about the time when she served under the dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh in the Gambia. She claims she knew nothing of the serious human rig [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]