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Views: Visits 135 New evidence shared by a former director of operations at Gambia’s national intelligence agency has linked former President Yahya Jammeh to the July 2005 killing of 51 West African migrants in the small West African country. The migrants, including 44 Ghanaians, nine Nigerians, two Togolese, and nationals of the Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Gambia, were killed over several days in the West African country. From February 24 to March 11, 2021, witnesses informed the Gamb...

Gambia Ex-President, Yahya Jammeh Linked To Murder Of Nine Nigerians, 50 Other Migrants One of those men was Paul Omozemoje Enagameh of Nigeria, whose brother, Kehinde Enagameh, was among those killed, according to a Nigerian investigation carried out in 2008. by SaharaReporters, New York Mar 12, 2021 Testimony before Gambia’s truth commission implicating then-president Yahya Jammeh in the summary execution in 2005 of about 59 West African migrants, including some nine Nigerians, should be fo...

(FILES) This file photo taken on March 28, 2014 shows President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia attending the 44th summit of the 15-nation west African bloc ECOWAS at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Foundation in Yamoussoukro. Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh said on December 9, 2016 he would not recognise the results of December 1 elections and called for fresh polls, a week after he conceded defeat. “In the same way that I accepted the results faithfully believing that the Independent Electoral Commissi...

Enagameh told Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission that his brother, Paul Enagameh, then 28, was missing in 2005 while seeking to migrate to Europe.

English News and Press Release on Gambia and 7 other countries about Protection and Human Rights; published on 02 Mar 2021 by HRW

A Nigerian man whose brother was among about 59 West African migrants killed in Gambia in 2005 by a paramilitary unit controlled by then-president Yahya Jammeh, told Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on March 2, 2021 that he wants to see those responsible brought to justice.