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.

Gambian President Adama Barrow sits in a chair at an international diplomatic event. In the foreground: a small flag of Gambia.

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Gambia: hopes for justice fades 9 months after the Truth Commission report

Victims and rights activists have raised concerns about the lack of Gambian government’s implementation plan of the 2021 Truth Commission’s recommendations. The vetting process is largely incomplete; the strategy for trials is unknown; the reparations budget is postponed. And there seems to be no political will at the president’s office.

By Mustapha K. Darboe, our correspondent in Banjul

Ensa Badgie prepares to testify (book in hand) at a Gambia Truth Commission (TRCC) hearing, next to an employee

Gambia: Suspect officials remain, as government stalls on TRC recommendations

Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow speaks during a press conference on the Trutch Commission's report

Gambia validates Truth Commission's work and promises justice

Who got amnesty from Gambia’s Truth commission, and who didn’t

TRRC Final Report: What must Gambia do to avoid another Jammeh

TRRC Final report: Gambia between prosecutions and amnesties

Lamin Sise (chairman of the gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission) presents the final report of the TRRC to Adama Barrow (president on the Gambia)

Gambia: Truth Commission report hangs on election result

The Gambia Truth Commission's courtroom is empty

In Gambia, reconciliation still on the back burner

Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and current President Adama Barrow

Gambia: "We want Truth Commission’s final report binned"

Demonstration by victims of the Jammeh regime

Gambia’s Truth Commission puts a price on reparations

Soldier in front of Arch 22 in Banjul, Gambia

Gambia: Government and Truth Commission clash over Jammeh’s Arch

Scene of reconciliation at the TRRC in Gambia

Gambia: When it is time for reconciliation

The Gambia Truth commission (TRRC) in the shadow of Fatou Bensouda

Gambia: Jammeh's justice and the shadow of Bensouda

Gambia: When “legal junglers” defend their role under military rule

Yahya Jammeh and truth commission witnesses in The Gambia

Gambia: spotlight on the extraordinary work of the Truth Commission

Sheriff Tambadou témoigne devant la commission vérité en Gambie

Gambia: how Jammeh weaponized the law

Toufah Jallow an another women watch the horizon from a Gambian beach

Sexual violence: Gambia’s Truth Commission must not miss its last chance

Bubacarr Bah testifies before the Truth Commission (TRRC) in The Gambia

Gambia: The story of a government-sanctioned massacre and its cover-up

Gambia: Did Jammeh order the killing of migrants?

Lamin Darboe testifies before the TRRC in Gambia

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

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

Gambia’s Truth Commission hears the NIA torturers

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

Major Baaji, Janus of the Gambian Intelligence Agency

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

Gambia: Jammeh’s Intelligence in spotlight

Hippocratic betrayal in Gambia

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

Gambia’s Truth Commission in a time of uncertainty

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

Gambia: when Jammeh was driving at break-neck speed

David Colley, Gambia’s worst prison director ever

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

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

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

Gambia: The truth shall set you free – or not

Gambia: The uncompleted search for the disappeared

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

Gambia: When Jammeh was turning crocodile

Gambia: Finger pointing in the security forces

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

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

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

One year of truth-telling in the Gambia

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

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

Gambia: Witnesses testify of rape by Yahya Jammeh

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

Gambia: Jammeh’s wealth to go to his victims

Gambia: top leader in 1994 coup admits to murder

The selective memory of Gambia’s former vice-president

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

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

Anger flares at the release of Gambia’s confessed killers

Gambia’s full terror exposed before the TRRC

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

Will Fatou Bensouda face the Truth Commission in Gambia?

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

Gambia’s TRRC encounter with a man once feared

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

Who are the key players at Gambia’s Truth Commission

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

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

Gambia unearths its past

The cost of lying to Gambia’s Truth Commission

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

Gambia’s searching the truth on summary executions

Gambia’s Truth Commission shows it has teeth

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

First confessions at Gambia’s Truth Commission

Gambia: When reparations can’t wait

A good medic under Gambia’s terror

Gambia: Uncomfortable truths on the 1994 executions

Sensitive truths at the Gambia’s truth commission

What model for Gambia’s truth commission?

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.