Bai Lowe is alleged to have been a member of Gambian ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh’s notorious death squad known as the “patrol team” or “Junglers”.
Beth Van Schaack, the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice at the Office of Global Criminal Justice, issued a statement applauding The Gambia’s recent progress in implementing some critical steps of the transitional Justice program. Ambassador Beth Van Schaack was in Banjul recently and met with Chief Justice Hassan Jallow.
German prosecutors on Thursday demanded life in prison for a Gambian man accused of belonging to a death squad that murdered opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including an AFP journalist.
Earlier this year, Micron announced successful clinical data from a phase I/II study in the Gambia, which evaluated the safety, immunogenicity, and acceptability of the leading commercially available MR vaccine delivered by Micron’s microarray technology in adults, toddlers and infants as young as nine months old.
The Gambia has on Thursday got the support of 5 European nations around the world and Canada who are now seeking to be part of a case brought by The Gambia at the United Nations’ highest court docket that accuses Myanmar of committing genocide towards its Rohingya minority.
Pregnant women, including some Gambians, have been involved in clinical trials for Pfizer’s maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine since 2019. Nevertheless, a study conducted by the British weekly peer-reviewed medical journal BMJ has shown that many of the trial participants were not informed by Pfizer about the nature of the vaccine they were vaccinated against, and that the trial of a comparable GSK vaccine was halted due to safety concerns regarding preterm birth.
She ruled in favor of former Gambian President Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara’s nephew who arrived in the U.S as a Gambian refugee. In stating he opinion she castigated the magistrate who had questioned Jawara nephew’s application for asylum. The magistrate was later removed.
On Monday, Gambia Education stakeholders reviewed and validated a proposed language in Education policy aimed at encouraging the use of first or native languages in the education sector. The World Bank is supporting the interface proposed by the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education.
The Gambia Immigration Police have launched Operation Zero Departure against irregular migration to stem the tide of people leaving Gambian shores on boats in search of the proverbial green pasture in Europe.
A British who converted to Islam in The Gambia was on Monday jailed for eight years for a string of terror offenses including possession of a firearm and funding terrorism. British spies once believed that Aine Davis, also known as Aine Rodrigues, was the fourth member of the ISIS ‘Beatles’, a group of British jihadists who tortured and killed hostages in Syria.
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