Human rights

Ghanaian Groups Urge Prosecution of Yahya Jammeh A paramilitary unit controlled by then-Gambian president Yahya Jammeh summarily executed more than 50 Ghanaian, Nigerian, and other West African migrants in July 2005, Human Rights Watch…

Activists said they have garnered new evidences in the 2005 killings in The Gambia of 50 West African migrants. Prominent international human rights groups, Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International, have gathered evidences on the…

Gambia has emerged from a dictatorship that exiled over 200 journalists within a span of 22 years, according to the Gambia Press Union. Information and Communication minister Demba Jawo has assured that the Adama Barrow administration…

The application for a TV license by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat has caused widespread anger among the Sunni clerics in Gambia who think the group should not be allowed to operate a TV. The Government of The Gambia has on Thursday…

The panel of judges at the country’s top court will issue a verdict as to whether false publication is constitutional or not   The Supreme Court of The Gambia will on Wednesday rule over the constitutionality of false news and false…

Gambia heads the ad-hoc OIC ministerial committee for addressing the "Accountability issue for the violation of human rights against the Rohingya in Myanmar".  The 45th annual meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the…

Gambia has made significant improvement in ensuring freedom of expression, jumping 22 places on the 2018 freedom of expression index of the Reporters Without Borders.  The United States Department of State has released its 2017 Human…