Colonel Omar B. Bojang, the outgoing Deputy National Security Adviser has been appointed as the new Defence Attaché at the Gambia Embassy in China, LamToro News has learnt. Col. Bojang replaces Lt. General Ousman Bargie, a former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF, 2012 -2017) […]
Senegalese authorities and security chiefs have on Tuesday, December 2 officially handed over Lt. Col. Sanna Manjang, The Gambia’s most feared soldier who was on the run for the past nine years. Manjang was handed over to a team of Gambia Military Police officers led by Provost Marshall Lt. Col. […]
Reports reaching LamToro News have it that ex-Lt. Col. Nuha Badjie, a member of former dictator Jammeh’s hit squad has not been arrested contrary to certain media reports following the earlier arrest of Sanna Manjang. Neither the military nor the governments of The Gambia and Senegal confirmed his arrest. LamToro […]
Fatoumatta: Guinea-Bissau’s coup in November 2025, marking the ninth in West and Central Africa in a mere five years, starkly reveals the region’s precariousness and the dangerous convergence of military power with organized crime. Often labeled as a ‘narco-state,’ Guinea-Bissau functions as a key transit hub for cocaine trafficking between […]