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
- JANUARY 1, 2019GambiaDEATH 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.
OCTOBER 3, 2018GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: SECOND PROTOCOL TO ICCPR RATIFIED
Gambia has ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, on 28 September 2018
JULY 11, 2018GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: 23 PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW
Gambia government has told the United Nations Human Rights Committee that the country is working on plans to repeal its law enforcing death penalty thus commuting the sentences of those on death row to life sentences.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2018GambiaDEATH 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.
- JANUARY 1, 2018GambiaDEATH 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
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2017GambiaDEATH PENALTY
MADAGASCAR RATIFIES ABOLITIONIST TREATY AND THE GAMBIA SIGNED IT
Gambia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty on 20 September 2017 and that Madagascar ratified it on 21 September 2017 together with the Optional Proto
MARCH 23, 2017GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: JUSTICE MINISTER WANTS DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Baboucarr Tambedou, said he wants the death penalty abolished in The Gambia.
- JANUARY 1, 2017GambiaDEATH PENALTY
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
- JANUARY 1, 2016GambiaDEATH PENALTY
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
JULY 22, 2015GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: PRESIDENT YAHYA JAMMEH GRANTS PARDONS BUT COUP PLOTTERS REMAIN ON DEATH ROW
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh pardoned several death-row inmates on July 22, the 21st anniversary of his arrival to power, but notably excluded those accused of launching a failed coup in December.
- JULY 5, 2015GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: PRESIDENT GRANTS AMNESTY TO CONVICTED COUP PLOTTER
Gambia's president granted amnesty to 85 prisoners including a former police official accused of participating in a coup attempt in 2009, state media said.
- APRIL 24, 2015GambiaDEATH PENALTY
At its 56th ordinary session, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) put the
At its 56th ordinary session, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) put the