Panel, including members of Justice Ministry, office of national security, armed forces, police and intelligence service, gets 30 days to finish probe and submit report, government spokesperson says.
Adama Barrow is declared winner by electoral commission after Saturday's crucial polls for the young African democracy.
Commission delivers long-awaited report to President Barrow nine days before an election where ex-president Jammeh, who still has much backing, has urged his supporters to vote for an opposition coalition.
Tension have been building in The Gambia, a tiny West African country, over President Adama Barrow's decision to stay in office for five years after initially pledging to step down after three.
Autocratic leaders in Africa are increasingly relying on internet blackouts to silence young people who use social media to mobilise against post-colonial political structures across the continent.
Five planes and 30 luxury cars, including Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, as well as four plots of land in some of the country's finest tourist areas that belonged to the country's former dictator are to be auctioned online.
Gambian President Adama Barrow, who took charge last year after defeating Yahyah Jammeh, said the death penalty had been kept in place to create fear in people.
January 21 marks one year since Gambia's authoritarian president, Yahya Jammeh fled the country, marking the nation’s first-ever democratic transition after the West African Union intervened militarily.
Yahya Jammeh, who fled the country after being forced to step down in January, also had 86 bank accounts and 131 properties linked to him seized by the state.
Over 880,000 Gambians are eligible to vote for 53 seats in the country's national assembly for the first time since the departure of longtime leader Yahya Jammeh and 22 years of one-party rule.
Victims of former president Yahya Jammeh's brutal rule hope they will get justice under the administration of Gambia's new President Adama Barrow.
The president took oath one month after a small ceremony was held in the Gambian embassy in Senegal to swear him in when former leader Yahya Jammeh refused to transfer power despite losing elections.
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