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After many years of legal wrangling, the families of the forty or so migrants massacred on Gambian soil in 2005 have regained hope with the decision by ECOWAS to require the Ghanaian authorities to disclose all information relating to the massacre of these migrants, who were on their way to Europe and landed in Gambia before being arrested and then executed by the security forces of former President Yahya Jammeh. An investigation was launched at the time, but the findings have remained secret to this day. It is therefore with great hope that the families of the victims have welcomed the decision. 

At the same time, authorities at the highest levels of the state are not immune from justice. The case of the arrest of a former general, alleged member of the death squad nicknamed "Jungler", a paramilitary unit responsible for carrying out illegal assassinations to intimidate the population and repress the opposition under Yahya Jammeh, is a clear example. This ex-general of the Bora Colley brigade had fled after the fall of President Jammeh in 2017. A communiqué from the Gambian army informs us that the accused turned himself in to the military police. He has since been arrested and appears to be cooperating with the military police in investigations concerning him.