Another of former Gambian strongman Yahya Jammeh’s men is facing trial for past atrocities that prosecutors say helped put the West African leader in power through the suppression of dissent.

Gambia's Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a government minister convicted of killing the finance minister to life in prison, one of few to be convicted of crimes committed during the ...

DENVER — Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of torturing political opponents of Gambia's former military dictator Yahya Jammeh nearly 20 years ago, the latest ...

Michael Sang Correa was charged with torturing five men believed to be opponents of Yahya Jammeh following an unsuccessful plot to remove him from power in 2006. A jury that heard the case in ...

a military unit that reported directly to former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh. Sanyang told jurors he eventually agreed to sign a false confession but wiped blood from his head onto the paper to ...

“The mission of the Junglers was to forcibly obtain confessions,” said U.S. Attorney Marie Zisa. Former The Gambia President Yahya Jammeh held power from 1994, after leading a coup against the former ...

DENVER (AP) — Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of torturing political opponents of Gambia’s former military dictator Yahya Jammeh nearly 20 years ago ...

one of few to be convicted of crimes committed during the 22-year rule of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh. The case has been closely watched in the tiny West African nation as a rare example of ...

DENVER (AP) — Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of torturing political opponents of Gambia’s former military dictator Yahya Jammeh nearly 20 years ago ...

DENVER (AP) — Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of torturing political opponents of Gambia's former military dictator Yahya Jammeh nearly 20 years ago ...