Direct answer: The Gambia archive currently contains one solved case: the 2016 custodial murder of political activist Ebrima “Solo” Sandeng after his arrest at a peaceful electoral-reform protest. In July 2022, the High Court in Banjul convicted five former National Intelligence Agency officials of murder. Former agency director Yankuba Badjie filed an appeal that was publicly reported in February 2026; no final appellate ruling was located in the sources reviewed.
Original editorial illustration; not a depiction of Ebrima Solo Sandeng, any defendant or a crime scene.
Cases with verified judgments establishing individual criminal responsibility, with later proceedings stated separately.
Documented cases in which the perpetrators or criminal accountability remain unresolved.
Contemporaneous reports, trial findings, sentences and later appeals are kept distinct.
The Ebrima Solo Sandeng file separates what rights organizations documented immediately after his April 2016 arrest from findings reached after the change of government, exhumation, investigation and High Court trial.
The archive calls the case solved because five named former intelligence officials were convicted of murder after trial in July 2022. It does not describe the defendants as merely suspected, and it does not hide the acquittals reported in the same proceeding or Yankuba Badjie’s publicly reported 2026 appeal.
Further Gambia cases will be added only when judgments, official documents, institutional archives or established journalism support a complete, respectful account and an accurate status classification.
Short answers about the archive and its classification.
One fully sourced case file is published.
The High Court in Banjul convicted five former National Intelligence Agency officials of his murder in July 2022. The classification rests on a judgment, not an arrest or allegation.
Yankuba Badjie, the former intelligence director, filed an appeal reported on 9 February 2026. The latest public report reviewed did not record a final appellate decision.
No. Reuters reported five murder convictions and two acquittals. The prosecution began with more accused persons, but not every original defendant reached the same outcome.
No. Both names refer to the same sovereign state and are consolidated under gambia.html; the page uses the country’s preferred English short name, The Gambia.
Yes, but only when reliable sources can support a complete page and an accurate unresolved-status classification.
