The President of Gambia Yahya Jammeh has insisted that all prisoners on Death Row must be killled.
Nine prisoners have already been executed by firing squad on Sunday.
President Jammeh has vowed to kill all 47 death-row inmates by mid-September.
Amnesty International attacked the policy last week when it reported that the executions had been carried out three days earlier.
Many of Gambia’s death row inmates are former officials and top military officers who have been detained for treason since 1994, when Jammeh took power in a coup.
One woman was among those executed, the Interior Ministry said, listing crimes such as murder, treason, arson, drug and human trafficking as being punishable by death.
It was not clear what crimes each of the nine prisoners were executed for.
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