Gambia
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- republic
- CONSTITUTION
- approved by national referendum on August 8, 1996, effective from January 16, 1997
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- a mix of English common law, Quranic norms, and customary law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
90% Muslims, 9% Christians, 1% indigenous beliefs
From the country
- NOVEMBER 27, 2025GambiaDEATH PENALTY
AFRICA - 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
No record shows that the question of Tundu Lissu in Tanzania was raised
MAY 15, 2025GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: SIERRA LEONEAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING BRITISH NATIONAL
Banjul High Court, presided over by Justice Ebrima Jaiteh, on May 12, 2025 sentenced Augustine Bangura, a Sierra Leonean national, to death having found him guilty of killing a British national, Shakina Chinedu.
APRIL 17, 2025GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OVER JAMMEH-ERA KILLING OF FINANCE MINISTER
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 22-year rule of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh, Reuters report
DECEMBER 20, 2022GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN UPPER RIVER REGION
Justice Landing M. Sanneh, the presiding Judge of the High Court in Basse, in the Upper River Region (URR) has sentenced Bakary Jallow, a driver by profession to death for reportedly killing one Alieu Sanyang, The Point reported on 20 December 2022.
JULY 14, 2022GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: FIVE EX-JAMMEH SPIES SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING ACTIVIST
A Gambian court on 13 July 2022 sentenced former intelligence chief Yankuba Badji and four other members of the intelligence service to death for the killing of a political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng during the rule of former strongman Yahya Jammeh.
- OCTOBER 21, 2021GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
One Momodou Korka Jallow on 21 October 2021 was sentenced to death in Gambia by the High Court, presided over by Justice Sainabou W. Cisse after he was convicted of murder.
- JULY 20, 2021GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: EX-JUNTA MEMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of the Banjul High Court on 14 July 2021 sentenced Yankuba Touray, a former Minister of Local Government and Lands to death by hanging.
- JANUARY 1, 2020GambiaDEATH PENALTY
On 19 February 2018, Gambian President Adama Barrow announced a moratorium on the death penalty
On 19 February 2018, Gambian President Adama Barrow announced a moratorium on the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2020GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA ANNOUNCES ‘MORATORIUM’ ON DEATH PENALTY
Gambian President Adama Barrow announced a suspension of the death penalty in his country, in a break from the former regime of the dictator Yahya Jammeh.
JULY 26, 2019GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: SENEGALESE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STRANGLING WOMAN
Justice Z. Jawara Alami of the High Court last week sentenced one Pap Ibrahim Khalilulaye Thiam, a Senegalese national to death for strangling one Fatou Loum, The Standard reported on 25 July 2019.
MAY 11, 2019GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: GOVERNMENT COMMUTES ALL DEATH SENTENCES TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Abubacar Tambadou, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice said on 7 May 2019 the government of the Gambia as part of fulfilling its international obligation is willing to remove the death penalty.
- JANUARY 1, 2019GambiaDEATH PENALTY
On 19 February 2018, Gambian President Adama Barrow announced a moratorium on the death penalty
On 19 February 2018, Gambian President Adama Barrow announced a moratorium on the death penalty