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UDP notifies National Assembly of expulsion of 8 their lawmakers
The United Democratic Party has notified the National Assembly over the expulsion from their party of 8 serving lawmakers, the speaker Mariam Jack Denton informed the lawmakers on Monday.
The expelled lawmakers are Fatoumatta Jawara,…
TRRC’s message on international day for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
2019 theme: “Orange the world: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape”
The TRRC stands with women and girls all around the world to commemorate the international day for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. The…
Foni Sintet: ‘13 died’ after drinking concoction of Jammeh’s witch doctors
On Monday, the Truth Commission begins its hearing in Sibanor, a settlement in Foni about 29 minutes drive from Kanilai, the village of the former President Yahya Jammeh.
At least 13 people have died in Foni Sintet following the…
TRRC Commissioners and staff visit scene of Koro’s burning
Press release
On the evening of Thursday, November 21, the last day of the TRRC’s public hearings on the witch hunt in Jambur, some Commissioners and staff of the Commission paid an impromptu visit to a nearby bridge where the charred…
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…
GPU reacts to assault on journalists covering the president’s tour
Fajara, 21st November 2019: The Gambia Press Union has been informed of a disturbing news from journalists covering the ongoing Meet the People’s Tour of President Adama Barrow.
The Union has been informed that Sally Jobe of Kerr Fatou,…
Gambia vs Myanmar at the world court: Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi to appear
According to Reuters news agency, Aung San Suu Kyi will appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to contest a case filed by Gambia accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority.
More than 730,000…
This lot of infidels
By Mustapha K Darboe
It has been his routine. Each day Suntu comes to people but he stays alone. He has become accustomed to being alone perhaps.
Most times, he would sit at a quiet corner at the Press House, murmuring to himself.…
Meet the 90-year old victim of Jammeh’s witch doctors
Masirending Bojang was over 80 years when she was captured in a village call Jambur, a settlement located some 52 minutes drive from Banjul.
On Wednesday, the Truth Commission had before it, for the first time, a witness who is over 90…
Old women who were stripped naked by Jammeh’s Green Boys
On Tuesday, three women who are natives of Ganloya, a village in the West Coast region, have told the Truth Commission that they were humiliated by the Green Boys during the 2009 witch hunting. The Truth Commission is in its second day of…