As High Court Tosses Contempt Charges Gambia’s Attorney General and minister of Justice, Abubacarr Tambadou, has suffered another humiliating defeat in his feud with Yankuba Touray, a former minister in the previous government of Yahya Jammeh. Mr Touray is in state custody after his arrest in June for refusing to[Read More…]
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Gambia: Jammeh Must Stand Trial For Deyda Hydara’s Murder
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…]
Gambia ex-President Jammeh ordered Deyda Hydara’s murder, truth commission told
An army officer Monday said he was among a group of men who murdered Gambian editor Deyda Hydara in 2004 on the direct orders of then-President Yahya Jammeh, Agence France-Press reported. In testimony before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, which was broadcast on the local Kerr Fatou Network, Lieutenant[Read More…]
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