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Transitional justice in West Africa has evolved through successive waves of institutional innovation. From the Special Court for Sierra Leone to Liberia’s ongoing truth commission debates, our region holds invaluable empirical lessons on prosecutorial strategy, victim outreach, and state cooperation.

As The Gambia prepares to operationalize the ECOWAS-supported Special Tribunal alongside the domestic Special Criminal Division, comparative analysis is critical. The Sierra Leone experience demonstrated that hybrid jurisdictions work best when domestic prosecutors and international jurists maintain mutual respect and shared institutional ownership.

Furthermore, regional cooperation through ECOWAS and bilateral judicial assistance treaties ensures that fugitives residing beyond national borders cannot escape accountability. Extradition protocols and evidence-sharing frameworks are actively being harmonized across regional capitals.

The Gambia’s transitional justice model is drawing international attention because of its comprehensive scope: criminal trials, reparations, memorialisation, and institutional reform pursued simultaneously rather than sequentially.

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