Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Human Rights

Government To Release ‘White Paper’ On TRRC Recommendations

By: Kebba AF Touray The Government of the Gambia has announced its intention to release the White Paper on the Recommendations of the just concluded...

Heads of ACA in Commonwealth Africa Call for Support to Prosecute...

By Mustapha Jallow The heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies (ACA) in Commonwealth Africa have called on their Governments to provide the Agencies with adequate resources to...

CSOs Submit White Paper on TRRC Report, Recommendations to Government 

By Nelson Manneh A coalition of Civil Society Organization’s (CSOs) in the Gambia, have submitted a White Paper they prepared on the Truth Reconciliation and...

Victims of Human Rights Abuse of Jammeh Regime Urge New Speaker,...

By Nelson Manneh Human rights victims of former President Yahya Jammeh’s regime have urged Fabakary Tombong Jatta and Seedy SK Njie, the current speaker and...

TRRC Holds Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS Treatment Programme Responsible

For Deaths of 41 Patients By Mustapha Jallow In their recently submitted report to the President Adama Barrow, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) held...

TRRC Recommends Prosecution of Former President Jammeh, Dr Tamsir Mbowe

For the Deaths of HIV/AIDS Patients By Mustapha Jallow Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) in its report earlier submitted to President Adama Barrow, have...

GCR Commissioner Says Gambia Home to Over Four thousand Refugees

By: Kebba AF Touray The Commissioner of the Gambia Commission for Refugees (GCR) Famara Fadera, has told members of the legislative committee on refugees that...

TRRC Recommends for Ex-Prison DG, 5 others to Face Trial for...

By Mustapha Jallow Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has recommended former Prison’s Director General, David Colley, Operations Commander  of Prisons, Ebrima Jammeh (‘chief...

TRRC Recommends Promotions Of Female Prison Officers Who Refused Sex With...

By Mustapha Jallow The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has  recommended promotions of female prison officers who refused to submit to sexual request by...

TRRC Recommends Prosecution of Ex-president Jammeh, Close Aides for Murder, Manslaughter

During 2009 Witch-hunt Operations By Mustapha Jallow In their final report and recommendations which they submitted to President Adama Barrow, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission...

TRRC Urges Gov’t to Establish Peace, Reconciliation Commission with Clear Mandate

By Nelson Manneh The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) endorsed the Government of The Gambia to establish a Peace and Reconciliation Commission with a...

Hon. Sillah Calls for Implementation of Recommendations on Legislative Reports

By: Kebba AF Touray Ousman Sillah, the National Assembly Member for Banjul North, has called on both the outgoing and incoming legislature to ensure on...

TRRC Report: Jammeh created hit-squad to kill, torture his enemies

By Mustapha Jallow The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has indicated in its final report that former President Yahya Jammeh was the architect of...

TRRC Recommends Arrest of Lt. Solo Bojang to Identify Burial Sites

 By Mustapha Jallow The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has recommended the Gambia Government to locate and/or arrest Lieutenant Colonel Solo Bojang for his...

NIA’s Special Operations Unit Found To Be Extremely Brutal Under Jammeh

By Mustapha Jallow  The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has found the Special Operations Unit (SOU) of the Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to...

TRRC Recommends Banning of 10 Senior Judges From Holding Gov’t Office

By Mustapha Jallow The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has in its report made public, recommended for the ban of ten (10) senior judges...

‘NIA Helped Jammeh Grip On Power By Spying People’

By Mustapha Jallow The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has found the once feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA) spying on government employees and citizens...

TRRC Recommends Former, Present NIA Agents Banned From Holding Gov’t Office

In this column we will publish excerpts from the TRRC report. TRRC PAGE With Mustapha Jallow The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has recommended in...

TRRC submits more copies of final report to Government

Press Release 16th December, 2021 The Secretariat of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has submitted an additional ten hard copies and fifteen soft copies...

NHRC Engages Police Over Alleged Report of Abuse Meted Out on...

By Mustapha Jallow  Mr. Emmanuel Daniel Joof, the Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Wednesday said his institution has engaged the Gambia Police Force...