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Ex-Gambia spy chief sentenced to death
Yankuba Badjie, and four other security agents, was sentenced for the 2016 killing of a political activist in the final days of President Jammeh’s rule.
A court in The Gambia has sentenced the country’s former head of intelligence and four other security agents to death for the murder of a political activist during the regime of the former President Yahya Jammeh.
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Photo: Yankuba Badjie. Credit: The Gambia Coalition.
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