Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea, to be extradited back to Gambia to stand trial for the 2004 murder of Deyda Hydara, a newspaper editor who was the dean of Gambia’s journalists and RSF’s correspondent. RSF issued the[Read More…]
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Alagi Yorro Jallow:Our silence to fight dictatorship caused the merciless death of moral values that promoted Yahya Jammeh’s two decades of rule. Part 1
They say that it takes a village to raise a child. But to raise a dictator and groom him for more than two decades in national leadership: that takes a whole nation. It takes a whole nation to remember, but also a whole nation to forget. The struggle over memory[Read More…]
Gambia: Deyda’s Murder Is A Serious Matter
By Sheriff Bojang As in the Cat Steven’s song, morning broke and the black birds were singing. It was Thursday, December 16. It was a special day for Deyda Hydara, co-founder and managing editor of The Point newspaper. It was his wife’s birthday and the 13th anniversary of the founding[Read More…]
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