Special focus

Time for the truth in Gambia

Since January 2019, Gambians have been glued to the public hearings of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). This commission was established to shed light on human rights violations committed during the military regime of Yahya Jammeh from July 1994 to January 2017. JusticeInfo.net brings together in a special focus its intensive coverage of what can be considered the event of the year 2019 in the field of transitional justice.

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Gambia Truth Commission: Darboe, the faithful silent agent of the NIA

With lot of expectations, a notorious member of a ‘Special Operations Unit’ involved in allegations of torture under Yahya Jammeh’s rule, appeared before the Gambian Truth Commission. Allegedly, Lamin Darboe arrested at least 115 people as an agent of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). But Darboe denied everything, while some of his colleagues confessed all, […]

By Mustapha K. Darboe, our correspondent in Banjul

Omar Cham testifies befor the Trutch Commission (TRRC) in Gambia.

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Gambia’s Truth Commission hears the NIA torturers

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Gambia: The spy chief who knew too much or not enough

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Major Baaji, Janus of the Gambian Intelligence Agency

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Gambia: When Jammeh’s NIA were “beating the truth out of people”

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Gambia: Jammeh’s Intelligence in spotlight

4 min 40

Hippocratic betrayal in Gambia

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Gambia: "The President shortened the lives of these people, they were not supposed to die"

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Gambia’s Truth Commission in a time of uncertainty

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Gambia: Jammeh's magic anti-AIDS potion did not exist

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Gambia: when Jammeh was driving at break-neck speed

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David Colley, Gambia’s worst prison director ever

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Tambadou quits: Will Gambia’s transition stay on course?

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The truth behind the walls of Mile 2 prison, Jammeh’s “five-star hotel”

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Correa, a ‘Jungler’ charged in the US: What Gambia’s Truth Commission has heard

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Gambia: The truth shall set you free – or not

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Gambia: The uncompleted search for the disappeared

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Ousman Sonko: a view on the Swiss case, from Gambia’s Truth Commission

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Gambia: When Jammeh was turning crocodile

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Gambia: Finger pointing in the security forces

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Gambia: The Supreme Islamic Council pointed at for its obedience to Jammeh

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Gambia: When imams opposed “the leader of the people of faith”

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Essa Faal: “We don’t want the truth commission to be seen as a toothless bulldog”

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One year of truth-telling in the Gambia

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Gambia: On the trail of deadly witch doctors in Jammeh’s region

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Gambia’s Truth Commission and Yahya Jammeh’s witch hunters

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Gambia: Witnesses testify of rape by Yahya Jammeh

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Gambia’s TRRC hears about sexual violence and torture against women

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Gambia: Jammeh’s wealth to go to his victims

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Gambia: top leader in 1994 coup admits to murder

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The selective memory of Gambia’s former vice-president

3 min 50

Gambia: I betrayed the students injured by gunshots, confesses Dr Jallow

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Gambia: twenty years later, student victims are still crying out for justice

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Anger flares at the release of Gambia’s confessed killers

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Gambia’s full terror exposed before the TRRC

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Gambia: “The media was the most persecuted institution under Jammeh”

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Will Fatou Bensouda face the Truth Commission in Gambia?

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Key junta member Touray puts Gambia's truth commission to the test

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Gambia’s TRRC encounter with a man once feared

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Being on Gambia’s TV without knowing it: Life of an opponent under Jammeh

9 min 42

Who are the key players at Gambia’s Truth Commission

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Gambia’s transition: Expensive justice for a poor, little country

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TRRC in Gambia: Sanna Sabally’s extraordinary moment of truth

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Gambia unearths its past

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The cost of lying to Gambia’s Truth Commission

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Gambia: You’d better be truthful before the Truth commission

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Gambia’s searching the truth on summary executions

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Gambia’s Truth Commission shows it has teeth

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Evidence at Gambia’s Truth Commission gets closer to former ruler

4 min 55

First confessions at Gambia’s Truth Commission

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Gambia: When reparations can’t wait

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A good medic under Gambia’s terror

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Gambia: Uncomfortable truths on the 1994 executions

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Sensitive truths at the Gambia’s truth commission

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What model for Gambia’s truth commission?

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Truth Commission meets with Gambians

ALL OUR ARTICLES ABOUT THE GAMBIA

Pending the publication of our next unpublished articles dedicated to this special focus about the TRRC, consult all of our publications dedicated to The Gambia, since 2015.