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Swiss first step to investigate environmental crimes in Gambia

Three years ago, the Swiss NGO TRIAL International filed a complaint against a Swiss businessman operating in the Gambia with the complicity of its former president Yahya Jammeh. The Swiss national is accused of having committed a war crime through pillaging Senegal’s forest cover. Only a few weeks ago, the Swiss prosecutor's office sent a first […]
By Mustapha K. Darboe
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