[AA.TR] Gambia... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
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the former head of the National Intelligence Agency, an institution accused of enforced disappearances and killings under former President Yahya Jammeh.
"We have arrested Yankuba Barjie, former director of NIA, and Sheikh Omar Jagne, director of operations. Investigations are ongoing," Gambia police spokesperson Foday Conta confirmed to Anadolu Agency Tuesday.
Conta said investigations are ongoing and that the duo have yet to be charged though the arrests were made on Monday evening.
Jammeh, who ruled Gambia with an iron fist for decades, lost his reelection bid to former property developer Adama Barrow in last December’s presidential elections.
This is the first high-profile arrest of former members of the previous regime since their surprise election triumph.
Two weeks ago Gambia police chief Yankuba Sonko told Anadolu Agency that the small nation’s Interior Minister Mai Fatty has issued a directive to probe the cases of missing people in the country.