German national Rene Schwarze, who was implicated in the high-profile Gambian diplomatic passport scandal in 2021, has been briefly arrested by authorities after resurfacing last
Category: Investigation
Duty & profit blur in Gambia’s military leadership
Documents, military sources, and photographs indicate that Gambia’s Chief of Defense Staff, Mamat Cham, has been operating a commercial fishing boat — crewed in part
Tanbi: a stolen ‘protected’ sanctuary
The Tanbi Wetland National Park (TWNP) is under systemic threat from officially–endorsed illegal land grabbing and unauthorised industrialisation, this investigation by The Republic found. The
The tomato paste ploy & President’s business interest
A 22,688-square-meter plot of state land, originally allocated to a business owned by a financier of President Adama Barrow’s party for a tomato paste factory,
How gov’t ‘evaded’ parliamentary scrutiny to dash millions to media houses
A project conceived in June 2023, when budget bilaterals had barely started, was somehow not budgeted for. Through a series of access to information requests
Inside the multi-million-dollar Gambia gov’t venture that makes president’s nephew a major food importer
Before his uncle, Adama Barrow, became president, a little-known Amadou Sanneh worked at his property management business — Majum — as a cashier collecting rents
Gambia’s deputy ambassador to Bissau was forcibly retired. This is why
Only a few months ago, a seasoned economist and a former deputy head of mission to Guinea Bissau was forcibly retired. Though this unusual decision
How Sheriff’s Division ‘violated court order’ in selling Jammeh’s cattle
We rely on your donations to fund our investigations. DONATE to support our work The former Gambian dictator, Yahya Jammeh, left the shores of the
The Republic’s exposé on sale of Jammeh’s assets sparks outrage, prompts parliament to hold extraordinary session
Gambian lawmakers are going to hold an extraordinary session on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss a motion to establish a parliamentary inquiry into the controversial
The assets of Gambia’s former dictator go for a song
After a 22-year rule of his poor, indebted country, Yahya Jammeh reluctantly went into self-imposed exile to Equatorial Guinea, following a shocking election defeat to