The Gambia to pay reparations to ex-dictator’s victims from sale of US mansion
- Gambian authorities have announced that funds from the sale of the country’s former president’s mansion in the United States would be used to pay reparations to victims of his rule.
- The Gambia Reparations Commission confirmed Tuesday that it received just more than $2.5m from the sale of a property in the wealthy Washington, DC suburb of Potomac, Maryland, belonging to ex-President Yahya Jammeh.
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- Gambian authorities have announced that funds from the sale of the country’s former president’s mansion in the United States would be used to pay reparations to victims of his rule.
- The Gambia Reparations Commission confirmed Tuesday that it received just more than $2.5m from the sale of a property in the wealthy Washington, DC suburb of Potomac, Maryland, belonging to ex-President Yahya Jammeh.
- Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Gambian leader pledges halt to rolling blackouts as protests turn violentlist 2 of 3Former ‘death squad’ leader appears in military trial in The Gambialist 3
Sources: Al Jazeera