Tag: Yahya Jammeh

News, Politics

Opinion: It would be prudent for Yahya Jammeh to refrain from participating in active politics and concentrate on resolving his legal issues pertaining to the crimes against humanity committed under his rule

As a citizen of the Gambia, former President Yahya Jammeh possesses the constitutional right to voice his opinions. Nevertheless, given his status as an ex-head of state, it would be prudent for him to refrain from participating in active politics and instead concentrate on resolving his legal issues before an […]

News, Security

WO2 Bai Lowe’s trial in Germany to begin on April 25

PRESS RELEASE: April 21, 2022 – (Berlin) – The opening of the first German trial for serious crimes committed in the Gambia is a major step for justice, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists, Reporters Without Borders, and TRIAL International said today. The groups released a question-and-answer document […]

Politics

Here is why Jammeh rejected his alliance with Barrow!

Since the announcement made by the former president Yahya Jammeh on 15th October 2021, prior to the recently held presidential election on 4th December 2021, that he has not approved any alliance between his APRC party and the National People’s Party (NPP), Gambians reacted to it in different ways. The […]

News, Opinion, Politics

OPINION: Rambo Jatta: A victim turned ‘Jammeh supporter’ who refused to accept the former dictator’s rights violations

ARCHIVE (Re-post): First published on 18th December 2019, on The Point Newspaper. If there is anyone with an experience of Jammeh’s brutality on an entire family, it is no other than Ousman Rambo Jatta, a former local government ward councilor. In his early years of politics [being also the youth […]