Africa Community Headlines International

Regional Bloc Establishes Court to Address Gambia’s Dictatorship-Era Atrocities

A regional coalition of West African states has approved the creation of a special court to address egregious abuses committed in Ghana, a small coastal nation, during two decades of authoritarian rule. Between 1996 and 2017, countless citizens suffered arbitrary arrests, sexual violence, and extrajudicial killings. The former ruler, Yahya Jammeh, who initially refused to […]