Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Yankuba Badjie
Aliases
Yankouba Badgie; Yankuba Badgie; Yankouba Badji; Yankuba Badji; Yankouba Badjie
Position
Former Director General of the Gambian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) (2013 – 2017)
Nationality
The Gambia
DoB
1973-02-25; 1973-02-24
Address
Banjul, The Gambia
Official reason
Yankuba Badjie was the Deputy Director General and then Director General of the Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) from 2013 to early 2017. In this capacity, he had responsibility for, and direct oversight of, operations that were carried out by The Gambia’s NIA. During Badjie’s tenure, the NIA were responsible for extra judicial killings,...
Other Information
The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.
Date of listing
2020-12-10
Program information
Authority
UK
Program
The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020
Regime
UK horizontal
Target State
Human Rights
Measures
Asset freeze and making available provisions, Travel bans
Sanctions Portfolio
• The Regulations impose financial sanctions through a targeted asset freeze on designated persons and prohibitions on making funds or economic resources available. This involves the freezing of funds and economic resources (non-monetary assets, such as property or vehicles) of designated persons and ensuring that funds and economic resources are n...
Official Information
The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 put in place sanctions measures to deter, and provide accountability for, activities which, if carried out by or on behalf of a State within the territory of that State, would amount to a serious violation by that State of an individual’s: • right to life • right not to be subjected to torture or ...
Additional Details
Licensing and exception provisions are contained in Part 5 of the Regulations.
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