cWe confront the harsh realities behind the migration tragedy in The Gambia, a crisis measured not just in numbers, but in broken families and vanished lives.
Reports from 2025 confirm that some of the boats that disappeared carried women and children, exposing them to extreme danger, abuse, and human rights violations at sea and along perilous land routes through the Sahara and Libya.
For every migrant who goes missing, there are families left behind, mothers, wives, and children trapped in uncertainty, emotional trauma, and economic hardship, with no closure and no justice.
As deaths, disappearances, interceptions, and deportations continue to rise, urgent questions emerge about responsibility and accountability from governments in The Gambia and across ECOWAS, to destination countries whose policies shape these dangerous journeys.
This conversation with our guest, a human rights activist, Madi Jobarteh, is about protection, vulnerability of women and children, and the duty to ensure that migration never becomes a death sentence.