The Gambia works to heal from brutal dictatorship

The small west African nation of The Gambia is recovering from a 22-year dictatorship, marked by murder and abuse of government opponents. A final report from the country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission is helping to set the country on a path toward healing, but as Alexa Dvorson reports, the process is anything but easy.

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