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The human rights watchdog, Amnesty International has urged the authorities in The Gambia to ensure justice is served for victims of 22 years of egregious abuse under former President Yahya Jammeh.
Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) will submit its report cataloguing 22 years of human rights violations to President Adama Barrow at State House in Banjul on Thursday.
The Commonwealth has named Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo as head of its election observer mission to The Gambia ahead of the December 4th presidential poll, APA learnt on Monday.
It’s barely a week since the official start to the election campaign in The Gambia where president Adama Barrow’s rivals have been taking pot shots at his government’s handling of the country’s affairs since 2017.
Amnesty International has called on all six contenders to The Gambia’s December 4, 2021 presidential election to commit themselves to a human rights charter submitted to them.
Wearing his National People’s Party (NPP) grey grand boubou, Barrow walked on Thursday to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) offices in Kanifing to tender his papers for reelection.
Amnesty International has expressed concern that repressive laws are “still in force” in Gambia despite the election promises made by President Adama Barrow, who came to power in 2017.
Gambians are still struggling to make sense of the most unlikely of political alliances in their country’s contemporary politics but a coalition between President Adama Barrow and Yahya Jammeh, the man he ousted in the 2016 presidential election is well and truly underway.
The death has been confirmed of The Gambia’s ambassador to Guinea Bissau, Lamin Jobe.
The police in Malta are detaining a Gambian man after he was found in possession of 45 packets of cannabis following a tip-off, APA can report on Tuesday.