Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Zineb Jammeh
Aliases
Zeinab Jammeh; Zeinab nee. Suma; Zineb nee. Suma
Position
Former First Lady of The Gambia and wife of Yahya Jammeh
Nationality
Morocco; The Gambia
DoB
1977-10-05
Address
Equatorial Guinea
Official reason
Former President of Gambia Yahya Jammeh was responsible for inciting, promoting and ordering extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearances; kidnappings and torture; as well as wider human rights violations during his tenure as President between 1994 and 2016. Zineb Jammeh is the former “First Lady” of The Gambia and is married to Yahya Jammeh. Sh...
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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