After a brief interruption, Semlex has resumed operations on Tuesday. The company has ceased operations last week in order to extend its contract with the government of The Gambia.
On trial in Germany for alleged crimes against humanity, murder, and attempted murder while serving under former President Yahya Jammeh’s command, Bai Lowe, a former member of the Gambian Armed Forces and part of “The Junglers,” is scheduled to learn his verdict.
The Operational Plan and the ECOWAS Framework on Social Protection have been approved and certified by the ECOWAS Ministers in charge of social protection on November 24, 2023.
The Gambia Police Force has today announced that the expired documents in circulation will be considered valid until the matter between the state and Semlex is resolved.
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.
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