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 […]
In the early hours of Friday, Gambian and Senegalese joint military intelligence force raided a makeshift compound in the sleepy border village of Bassen, Casamance, arresting former Gambian military officer accused of being a part of a paramilitary squad responsible for killing adversaries of the ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh. Lt. Col. […]