An ex-member of Gambia’s military has been convicted at a federal jury trial in Denver of torturing five people accused of involvement in a failed coup against the West African country’s longtime dictator nearly 20 years ago.
An ex-military officer in Gambia and others have testified this week against a man on trial in the United States accused of conspiring to torture people accused of opposing the West African nation's longtime dictator.
A lawyer for a man accused of torturing people suspected in a planned coup against Gambia’s longtime president says the defendant was a mere private in the West African country’s military who risked torture and death himself if he disobeyed superiors.
Gambia has been rocked in recent months by a heated debate on female genital cutting, a centuries-old practice rooted in concepts about sexual purity and control of women.
Switzerland’s top criminal court has convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity for his role in murder, torture and other repression by the west African country’s security forces against opponents of its longtime dictator.
Lawmakers in Gambia have referred a repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions.
Gambia’s government is setting up a special prosecutor’s office to investigate for severe human rights violations and potentially charge former dictator Yahya Jammeh, who fled into exile in 2017 after 22 years in power.
Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has secured his re-election with a comfortable margin over his opposition in a vote that set the bar for a new chapter in the small West African nation’s democracy.
Election officials in the West African nation of Gambia have started counting marble votes after polls closed for the first presidential election in decades that does not include former dictator Yahya Jammeh as a candidate.
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