US EditionThe Gambia Government Issues Stern Warning Against the Return of Exiled Jammeh
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Yahya Jammeh And The Bokassa Parallel – The Standard Newspaper
By Rtd Lt Colonel Samsudeen Sarr, When Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the self-crowned Emperor of the Central African Empire, landed in Bangui in 1986 after nearly a decade in gilded exile, he returned not to the throne he once adorned with diamond-studded arrogance, but to a courtroom. His empire had crumbled, his marble crown long turned to dust. Yet what drew him home, against all reason, was not courage, but fatigue. The same exhaustion that haunts the…
The Gambian government warned former President Yahya Jama that he would face arrest and prosecution on charges of serious human rights violations during his reign, if he returned to the country next November, as recently announced. The warning came two days after a collector's voice message was broadcast to thousands of his supporters in his village, Kanillai, in which he announced his intention to return to the Gambia next year and to lead his …
The announcement of the forthcoming return of Yahya Jammeh to the Gambia, after several years of exile in Equatorial Guinea, provoked a strong reaction from the Gambian government. In a communiqué, the authorities acknowledged that the former head of State, like any Gambian citizen, has the right to return to his country. However, they wished to clarify that this right cannot protect him against possible legal proceedings related to the serious …
Jammeh can return, but must face TRRC law — Dr. Ceesay
“Jammeh can come back, yes,” Dr. Ceesay stated. “But if he does, he must face the due process as prescribed under the TRRC. As for the government’s involvement, absolutely none. Government played no role whatsoever.” The minister’s remarks came hours after Jammeh, who has been living in exile in Equatorial Guinea since 2017, declared in a WhatsApp audio message that he intends to return to The Gambia this November. The message, played in his hom…
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