Almost 30 people have died in two boat accidents in Senegal and The Gambia, neighbouring west African nations with poor maritime safety records. Twenty-one people, most of them women, were killed on Monday night when a traditional flat-bottomed boat overturned off Bettenty, a central Senegal island area, with 72 on board, said Commander Oumar Kane, … Read more
Police in the Gambia say investigators have exhumed the body of Solo Sandeng who died in custody during the administration of former president Yahya Jammeh. The opposition leader and activist led a peaceful opposition march for political reform on April 14, 2016, but died in detention shortly after his arrest by state security agents. The … Read more
The ex-head of The Gambia’s notorious prison system has been charged over the disappearance of the former spy chief and senior military figures after a coup attempt in 2006. David Colley ran the prisons nearly nonstop from 1997 onward under Yahya Jammeh, the longtime leader of the west African state, who was forced out of … Read more
Dozens of opposition supporters in the Gambia have been arrested by police in the western town of Kafenda – a stronghold of the former leader, Yahya Jammeh, an opposition spokesperson and former information minister has said. Seedy Njie, now the spokesperson for Jammeh’s Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction, (APRC), said the police picked up … Read more