Gambia

Call to Action: African Nations Push to Abolish Death Penalty

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Hope for the region Gambia, Kenya, and Zimbabwehaven’t carried out an execution in over a decade while each country has commuted multiple death sentences in the same period. Kenya has not had an official moratorium on executions since 1987 but has not carried them out. In 2023, Kenya granted 606 commutations of death sentences. Four … Read more

Gambia celebrates progress in FGM fight, but urgent action needed to tackle underlying issues

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Reacting to the rejection of a bill to repeal the 2015 Women’s (Amendment) Act which bans female genital mutilation (FGM), by Gambia’s parliament on 15 July, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: Why is the rejection of the bill significant? The bill aimed at reversing the ban on FGM … Read more