Tag: Yahya Jammeh

Some sections of Gambia’s business community had a different feeling as far as India’s relations with Banjul is concerned. One of them is Ebrima Madikay Faal, AKA Sheikh Faal. He is the owner of the Sebena Trading Enterprise. Faal used to operate a business in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States before his home return. He also owns businesses in neighboring Senegal. He returned home to invest. Faal says that Indian businesses have outperform Gambian businesses in the country. He blames the government for what he calls the lack of…

Gambia’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice has Monday clarified reports about the decision he took to recommend the release of the three hitmen who confessed to the ongoing Sixth Session of the truth commission that they took part in various extra-judicial killings. They all confirmed that they acted at the direction of Gambia’s former longtime ruler. “This press conference was called by me as part of efforts to reaching out to the wider victims’ family and the general public to explain the rationale behind this action,” he told journalists…

Abubacarr Tambadou, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Gambia, announced on Monday August 5 that he is ordering the release the three “Junglers” who recently confessed at the TRRC to taking part in a series of gruesome killings on the orders of Yahya Jammeh. The three are Malick Jatta, Omar Jallow and Amadou Badjie. The Junglers were a notorious unofficial paramilitary unit drawn from the State Guard, that took its orders directly from Jammeh. At his press conference, Minister Tambedou did not set out any restrictions which would prevent the…

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GAMBIA NEWS TODAY 2ND AUGUST 2019    

PRESS BRIEFING AUGUST 2019\ TRRC JUNGLERS I understand that my recommendation for the army to release Mr Malick Jatta, Mr Omar Jallow, and Mr Amadou Badjie, three members of the “Junglers” Patrol Team who testified at the TRRC, has evoked strong emotions among some victims and concerned members of the public. This reaction is quite understandable especially given the revelations the three men have made at the TRRC about some of their activities under former President Jammeh. Let me clarify from the onset, that the recommendation to release the three…

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PRESS RELEASE Political interference into public institutions like GRTS will not be allowed It has come to my notice that the Governor of the Upper River Region (URR) Fanta B.S Manneh is trying to interfere with the work of GRTS in her region. She claims that she is the representative of the President in the region and that, all GRTS reports should go through her before being broadcast or published. This is an insult to our new found democracy and we will not accept it. Those days when the media…