The Director of Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice (EFSCRJ), Madi Jobarteh, has said the failure of the National Assembly to sit on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, due to lack of quorum is not just disappointing, it is a direct violation of the Constitution and an insult to the Gambian people. “When the…
Photo Credit: Gambia Journal The Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice welcomes and commends the Government of The Gambia for the arrest of Junglers Sanna Manjang and Nuha Badjie. We express our profound relief that, at long last meaningful steps are being taken to bring these notorious perpetrators of serious human rights violations…
Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice (EFSCRJ) has received with shock the damning investigative report by Malagen about the allocation of pieces of land within the Tanji Bird Reserve to various businesspeople and politicians (Tanji Bird Reserve Carved Up? Inside Deals to Turn Protected Land into Profit). These beneficiaries are reported to include…
Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice (EFSCRJ) is deeply concerned by the Chief of Staff and Minister for the Presidency Mod Ceesay’s statement that the Government would investigate the leaking of the letter from his office to the Ministry of Finance requesting funds for the medical trip of the President’s mother to Senegal….
EFSCRJ Welcomes a Coroner’s Inquest into the Death in Custody of Jungler Bora Colley We have noticed the public statement from the Gambia Armed Forces published on their Facebook page on March 10 of the death of Brigadier General Bora Colley, a former military officer and a member of the notorious Jungler death squad of…
