For 21 years, the people of The Gambia lived under the dictatorship of military strongman Yahya Jammeh. Now, The Gambia is working to step up to the challenge of unpacking the past with a Truth and Reconciliation commission aimed at ensuring that it never relapses into repression, violence, and exclusion.
Read the full story at ICTJ here.
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