Ba Tambadou
| Abubacarr Tambadou | |
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| Minister of Justice Attorney General |
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Assumed office 7 February 2017 |
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| President | Adama Barrow |
| Preceded by | Mama Fatima Singhateh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Abubacarr Marie Tambadou 12 December 1972 |
| Alma mater |
University of Warwick SOAS, University of London |
Abubacarr Marie Tambedou (born 12 December 1972), known as Ba Tambadou, is a Gambian politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General in President Adama Barrow's cabinet since 7 February 2017. He previously worked as a lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, serving as special assistant to the Prosecutor from 2012 to 2016.
Tambadou is the son of Alhaji Marie Tambadou and is the brother of Sherriff Tambadou. Tambadou was a student at Saint Augustine's High School in Banjul from 1987 to 1992. From 1994 to 1997, he studied an LLB in law at the University of Warwick, in the United Kingdom, and in 1999 was called to the bar as a barrister-at-law at Lincoln's Inn. From 2001 to 2002, he completed an LLM in international human rights law at SOAS, University of London.
Tambadou first worked as a public prosecutor at the Gambian Ministry of Justice from 1997 to 1999, ensuring national prosecution of local crimes. He then worked as state counsel from 1999 to 2000, with supervisory responsibilities over public prosecutors. He then went into private legal practice, working at Sheriff M. Tambadou Law Chambers in Banjul from 2000 to 2003, with a particular focus on human rights law.
In 2003, he left the Gambia to work at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, as an associate legal officer, a position he held from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he worked as a trial attorney, where he was responsible for prosecuting violations of international human rights law in Rwanda. He secured the prosecution of four individuals, including former Rwandan army general Augustin Bizimungu. In 2008, he became an appeals counsel and handled a number of cases on appeal, including The Prosecutor vs Augustin Bizimungu and The Prosecutor vs Théoneste Bagosora. For a time, he acted as officer-in-charge in the absence of the senior appeals counsel. In 2012, he became special assistant to the prosecutor, a role that included drafting papers and policy, leading briefings, and acting as chief of staff for the prosecutor's immediate office. The prosecutor since 2003 has been former Gambian justice minister Hassan Bubacar Jallow. Tambadou left the court in 2016 after it closed.
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